Directions: In this section there are short passages. After each passage you will find questions based on it. Answer them based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author only.
PASSAGE VI
It was Galileo and Newton — notwithstanding that Newton himself was a deeply religious man — who destroyed the old comfortable picture of a friendly universe governed by spiritual values. And this was effected, not by Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation nor by any of Galileo's brilliant investigations, but by the general picture of the world which these men and others of their time made the basis of the science, not only of their own day, but of all succeeding generations down to the present. That is why the century immediately following Newton, the eighteenth century, was notoriously an age of religious skepticism. Skepticism did not have to wait for the discoveries of Darwin and the geologists in the nineteenth century. It flooded the world immediately after the age of the rise of science.
Religious skepticism arose because
- AGalileo and Newton were not religious, being scientists
- BNewton discovered the law of gravitation
- Cof the discoveries of Darwin and the geologists of the nineteenth century
- Dof the picture of the world that became the basis of science after the seventeenth century
Explanation
It was the general scientific world-picture, not any single discovery, that caused skepticism.