John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

The enlightenment thinkers were the first people who gathered together and decided to think of a better way of government instead of a monarchy. John locke was the one who influenced most thomas jefferson. The rights that Thomas Jefferson talks about is Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Which mean people have the right to do what without someone judging them. The power of the government comes from the people. This was made because people only were ruled by a king and only passes their crown down to their sons, and sometimes their sons weren't the best ones and failed to control a country. So thomas took the enlightenment thinkers ideas and changed them a little to form a democracy. So this way people would vote for their governments and if they saw the government was doing a bad job the people had the power to overthrow the government and replace them.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

There was two theories the first one was the theory of geocentrism. This theory was believed that the earth was the center of the universe and not the sun. The people just believed the word the priest said and the people also believed this theory because when they looked up to space they saw the sky going in circles(rotating).

The second theory was heliocentrism. This theory was invented in the time of the scientific revolution. This theory says that the universe revolves around the sun. Scientist saw this when they observed that different shapes were formed from the moon and planets.

Galileo believed in heliocentrism. He wanted could prove this because he invented items such as the telescope and he could see outer space from his house. The pope was believed in geocentrism so he was said to be guilty and was placed on house arrest. The time when the people found out that Galileo was right was too late. Galileo was dead.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

During the 1500's people mostly thought what Greeks believed was true. They thought the earth was the center of the universe and it revolved around us; but to the scientific proved that wrong. Scientist did experiments to prove their point such as Galileo who proved that all stones of different weights fell down at the same speed. The scientific method is based on looking at something, then you make a prediction of what could happen and then experiment on that idea a few times to prove the answer.

When these theories did not explain why something happened they had to make new theories, but this did not mean they were wrong but it could not explain all the data of the certain time. But when experiments are proven  then later there is some incompletion with the theory. For example when Newton's theory of gravity the experiments showed he was right. Then after more technology was made and Einstein proved those experiments with some errors.

Evolution Vs. Creation

Evolution

Charles Darwin thought that creatures of all kind had come from the same ancestors. He believed that we had evolved for survival of the fittest and through mutation. Also what Charles thought was that natural selection had to be involved with evolution. What Charles Darwin thought about this was that natural selection was when the animal/plant etc, had a offspring, it gave all of it's character traits to it's offspring and that would wipe out the creatures who could not survive to the environment.

Creation

This is a religious belief that the whole world, universe was made by a super natural person; but people decreased in believing in creation as scientific methods have proven much. A lot of people believe in this jewish, muslims, Islam's and christians.

In my opinion I don't believe in any theory because they all give evidence that we come from one supernatural man or we come from one ancestor. But they both have errors in their statements. For example the people who believe in creation say that we come from adam and eve but they said they had two boys. So did people expand? For creation they say keep announcing we come from one thing but where did the first thing come from?