BACON BITTS!!!!!

Francis Bacon provided the world with the scientific method. His heavy belief in experimentation and observation led to his scientific knowledge. Francis Bacon was not interested in scholasticism which had dominated the European education in universities at the time. These students of scholasticism would spend their time just pondering about works of Aristotle and making syllogistic arguments. They would not put much effort into observing the world around. Bacon strictly believed that the church and science could not go together and that led him to ultimately taking away the church's power to educate. Bacon wanted to transform the church because the committed idolatry according to him.

FOUR IDOLS

-Idols of the tribe are certain characteristics that everyone shares. These usually contain the tendency of our senses to deceive us about what is really there, our inclination to wishful thinking, and our hasty generalizing tendencies before a careful investigative work has been done.

-Idols of the cave are conceptions or doctrines which vary from person to person and are usually result of preconditioned system of every individual, comprising education, custom, or accidental or contingent experiences.

- Idols of the marketplace are false conceptions which arise from interactions between men, usually through language. The tendency to use language too casually and imprecisely can cause problems in inductive reasoning.

-Idols of the theatre are prejudices from received or traditional philosophical systems. The theories and dogmas by which we are already familiar with can possibly lead us away from investigating for the truth.

How Galileo's daughter (Maria Celeste) helped Galileo

The daughter of Galileo, Maria Celeste, help out Galileo is many ways. Some of which greatly effected our world today. Galileo's work would have never even been done if it wasn't for her. First of all, she greatly helped him to survive, including feeding him and giving him medicine and making sure that he was always healthy in order to make accurate observations. One of the most crucial and important things that she did for him was editing all of his writings, which saved Galileo so much time and allowed him to put that to use through better observations, which led to proving the church wrong. Furthermore, after Galileo was on trial for making fun of Pope Urban (can someone please tell me which one) in his book, Galileo was put on trial by the offended pope. Where Maria comes in in this situation is that fact that she fully prepared Galileo for his trial and told him exactly what to say to them.

Thomas Aquinas

St. Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 in Italy. He was one of the greatest medieval thinkers, being both philosopher and theologian. Thomas Aquinas was initially a Benedictine priest, but later decides to become a Dominican priest. Thomas Aquinas produced lots of works, but did not write after December 6, 1273 when he had a religious experience. Thomas Aquinas died in 1274 in Italy, and was canonized in 1323.

Aquinas believed that reason should be embraced by Christianity and developed rational arguments to prove God's existence through this reason. Aquinas believed that God intended us to use reason, that he made us that way, and when we use this reason we can see the world as being an emanation of God. In order to get closer to God, we must first understand him better, and the only way to do that was to use our logic and get to know God better. Aquinas brings reason back into the Middle Ages and teaches how to prove Christian faith through it.

First Way: The Argument from Motion
- Aquinas concluded that an object that is in motion is put in motion by some other object or force. He believed that ultimately there must have been an unmoved mover (in this case God) who put things in motion in the first place.

Second Way: Causation of Existence
- Aquinas concluded that through common sense and observation, it is evident that no object can create itself, and that instead, some previous object must have made it. There must have been an uncaused first cause (again, God) who started the chain of existence for all things.

Third Way: Contingent and Necessary Objects
- Aquinas believed that the extence of contingent beings (objects that can't exist without a necessary being causing its existence) would inevitably need an already existing being (God) in order for all of the contingent beings to exist.

Fourth Way: The Argument from Degrees and Perfection
- Aquinas concluded that for any given quality, there has to be a standard of perfection from which all such qualities are measured. In other words, there has to be a form of perfection (God) to which we can compare.

Fifth Way: The Argument from Intelligent Design
- Aquinas states that by the way the universe works, it can be concluded that it was designed by an intelligent designer (God).