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Outcomes of Scientific Revolution  Scientific Networks New ideas of scientific revolution were not accepted immediately in the universities, so other groups formed to discuss and debate the new science ○ Eng. Royal Society: improve natural knowledge ○ French Royal Academy of Science Each organization tried to expand knowledge

Outcomes of Scientific Revolution  Science and Religion Argument from design ○ Complex design of nature proved a divine designer Atheism ○ Belief that there is no God Deism ○ The clockmaker God Blaise Pascal’s wager

Outcomes of Scientific Revolution  Science and the State Thomas Hobbes ○ Defended absolutism using science ○ People, left to themselves, will just attack one another – they need an absolute ruler John Locke ○ Opponent of absolutism ○ Government rests on the voluntary contract between ruler and ruled

Outcomes of Scientific Revolution  The Nature of History views of human history ○ Pessimistic The sad story of decline and decay from an original high point ○ Cyclical Humanity passes through high and low stages ○ Moderns Human history is the story of intellectual progress Timeless universal laws do not admit of history being a time of decline and decay