Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

The reign of terror was mostly about struggles between rivals that took on violent character with executions by the guillotine. This reign of terror lasted for about 10 months after the french revolution had promised democracy. Max Robespierre was a very important part of the french revolution. He was also a influential member of the committee of public safety. He said "Terror is nothing other than prompt, severe, inflexible justice." On september 5 the convention institutionalized the terror : systematic and lethal repression of the enemies within the country. The result of was policy in which the state could use violence to kill people that were resistant to the government. The estimated total victims of the reign of terror was 40,000. 8% were aristocrats, 6% were clergy, 14% middle class, and 70% were workers or peasants accused of many sorts of crimes.

French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and social problems in the political history of France as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on enlightenment principles of republic, citizenship, and inalienable rights. The first estate was the church clergy (those who prayed). The second estate was the nobility knights(those who fought). It was common for aristocrats to enter the Church and shifted from the second to the first estate. The third estate was the peasantry (everyone else).

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

Nicolaus Copernicus is the first to discover a Sun-centered system in which the earth, rotating on its own axis every twenty-four hours, revolved around the sun once a year. In 1543 he published a book named the revolutions of the celestial orbs. His book was all about the heliocentric theory which involves the thought that the earth revolves around the sun. Although the first theory was the geocentric theory which was created by Aristotle.

Scientific Revolution: Scientific Method

The scientific method consists of many steps. First observe and describe of a phenomenon. Second form a hypothesis to explain the phenomena. Third use the hypothesis to predict that other phenomenas exist, or to predict the results of new observations. Fourth perform experimental tests on the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.

An example of Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, stated that males and females have different number of teeth, without bothering to check;

Evolution vs Creation

Evolution is the theory that everything descends from a common ancestor, and that all life is related. Charles Darwin created this theory he also thought that all living things developed from non-living things or that complex creatures came from more simplistic ancestors. Random gene mutations that are in a organism`s genetic code occur, but it`s a good thing because it can be used for good. This process is called natural selection these mutations are passed on to future generations. Over time as the mutations accumulate the organism changes to a totally different creature. Darwin's theory of evolution is a slow process. Here`s what darwin wrote : "…Natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight successive variations she can never take a great and sudden leap, but must advance by short and sure though slow steps."

Creation is the belief that everyone and everything is created by someone whose existence is yet to be unknown. There are different types of creationism from the resources that were given to me there are only 6. They are young earth creationism, Old earth creationism, Gap creationism, Day-age creationism, Progressive creationism, and Theistic evolution. These types of creationism are in the christian religon. There are other religons as well for example Hinduism, Islamic, and Jewish they are all in the category of creationism, but with different opinions on it.