Reason During The Enlightenment

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The Enlightenment was a revolution of thinking that was led by the Scientific Revolution. Through the use of reason, Enlightenment thinkers, people, and governments insisted they could solve every social, political, and economic problem. One of the most important ideas achieved by the Enlightenment was the idea of reason, and not religion. This idea caused people to question why things happened by using science rather than to believe whatever the church said. Some benefits reason, not religion have caused are the discovery of heliocentrism and the creation of the Scientific Method. Before the Enlightenment, people believed that the sun and other planets revolved around Earth. During the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, astronomers theorized that …show more content…
Another way people used reason, instead of religion was when the Scientific Method was created. The Scientific Method was a method in which the scientist would ask and answer scientific questions by making observations and conducting experiments. The use of the Scientific Method has resulted in many new discoveries, such as Alexander Flemming's discovery of Penicillin. I think reason, not religion is the most important idea of the Enlightenment because many discoveries would not have been made if we continued to believe whatever the church said. If we continued to believe the church we would be less technologically advanced today. Today, reason, not religion impacts us because it encourages people to use science to find more discoveries, and without reason science would not exist. People say that natural laws, or laws that govern human nature are more important, were a more important idea of the Enlightenment. This statement is incorrect because this idea was already developing and eventually we would gain these