The Enlightenment Era: The Cause and Effect of Science on Religion

The Enlightenment was a term used to denote a turn away from the theologically centered thought inherited from the "dark ages" towards a broader, more rational self-understanding (Europe and the Enlightenment 2). The Enlightenment Era, which started at the end of the seventeenth century and ended at the end of the eighteenth century, was the age that brought focus on many of the revolutionary ideas that we are living through at this moment or have lived through recently. Many of the revolutionary ideas during this era were focused mainly on science. …