Development of the Modern World and Religion Since the beginning of human existence, our ability to think and ask questions has led us to answer questions sometimes with uncertainty and doubt . Many natural events that are easily explained today thanks to our technological advances were great mysteries to early societies. Unable to answer their questions, many attributed storms, floods, heat, and cold to acts of the gods, which was a much more plausible explanation than not knowing at all. Soon people began to rely on these explanations; for thousands of years people were raised with the belief that even the most recent religions based their texts on the belief that gods created our world. Because of this, religions had to make statements about how the gods created this world, but later realized, too late, that the advancement of science was turning their written beliefs into lies. The Roman Church tried to forcibly stop the circulation of the writings of the early philosophers, but the quest for knowledge soon became too great. The early Christians, trying to cope with this emerging belief, decided to try to stifle this rebirth of science by banning the study of anything that was not about God and tried to stall as long as possible before having to resume their beliefs. The Roman Catholic Church had, since the fall of Rome, been a superpower in its own right. Nations were created and destroyed in his name and by the will of the Pope. The power of the Church lay in the fact that the people feared the Pope and his power to condemn kings to Heaven or Hell. With this immense power, the Church could tell people that what... the middle of the paper... believes is a falsehood. Even today the Catholic Church claims to be right on many arguments that have been disproved by my modern scientists. Little by little the church is calming down; they no longer say that Noah lived to be 800 years old, or that Moses parted the Red Sea. Now more scientific explanations are sought to modernize the Church so that followers remain faithful. One day the Church may have to recover so much that religion will no longer have any meaning.---------------------------- - ----------------------------------------[1] A history of the war between science and theology in Christendom , Andrew D. White (1896, D. Appleton and Company)[2] The revolutions of the celestial bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1543, letter to Pope Paul III)[3] On the eternity of the world, Thomas Aquinas