One of the most surprising things that I learned from this chapter was that what really sparked the scientific revolution was the universities and the students. The Catholic church's version of how God created the Earth in 7 days. The change of Europeans thought about where Earth stood and that it was also not the center of the universe created a lot of controversy.
I think this also relates to school now because there was a time and I believe there still are schools where they teach that God created the world in 7 days without getting into other theologies. Even now being in a private catholic university there are certain things that can't really be in the curriculum because of the catholic church. My psychology professor repeatedly says that there are some things that she can't talk about sexuality because of the reason that the school is catholic.
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