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This person preferred naturalistic explanations to supernatural ones and earned the title
"Destroyer of Religion."
Epicurus
The mystery religions that were influential in the early Roman Empire were characterized by all of the following except
a belief in multiple Gods
Which of the following occurred during the Dark Ages (c. 400-1000)?
Arab philosophy, science, and theology flourished
Descartes had an intellectual crisis when:
it occurred to him that everything he had ever learned was useless
Who were among the first to accept Copernicus's heliocentric theory?
mathematicians who embraced Pythagorean-Platonic philosophy
Petrarch believed all of the following except:
Scholasticism contained most of the solutions to human problems
According to Bacon, scientific theory:
biased observations
According to Galileo, all of the following were true of secondary qualities:
they correspond to nothing that exists in the physical world
b. they are merely names we give to certain psychological experiences
c. they are irrelevant to an understanding of the physical world
According to Bacon, science should utilize:
only the direct observation of nature
The church responded to Galileo's scientific achievements by:
making him recant his scientific conclusions
According to Bacon, the human tendency to see events as they would like them constituted the:
idol of the tribe
Giovanni Pico argued that:
God had granted humans a unique position in the universe.
Newton believed all of the following about the universe except that:
it was too complex to be understood by anyone but God
According to the Deist:
God created the universe but thereafter had no involvement with it
Which of the following was not a factor in the acceptance of objective study of nature due to the weakening of church authority?
the embracing of Aristotle's empirical views
Galileo made a sharp distinction between objective and subjective reality. These concepts refer respectively to which?
primary; secondary qualities
All of the following were reasons that Kepler accepted Copernicus's heliocentric theory except:
Kepler believed that Copernicus' theory gave humans a favored place in the universe
Among the Renaissance humanists, Skepticism was most clearly demonstrated by:
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