RLG203H5 Lecture Notes - Steven Pinker, Tabula Rasa, Agnosticism
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For the exam, look at the weekly guiding questions and the follow up questions to prepare yourself. Guiding question of this week: in what ways was christianity transformed as a result of the. Agnosis, lacking knowledge: a (in greek, means not that) In the 16th and 17th century, saying that the earth moves and revolves around the sun was a problem for christians, but in contemporary times, it"s not a problem for anyone. Constellations such as the big dipper: stay relatively the same in relative to all the other stars, the planets wandered though. N. copernicus: published on his deathbed, challenging the view of the cosmos and challenging against the catholic church, the map showed that the sun is in centre of the motion and the earth moves around it. It means that the earth isn"t in the centre and that means humans aren"t in control or in the centre.
