The Enlightenment Thinkers Who Influenced Many Educated Americans in the Eighteenth

The Enlightenment thinkers who influenced many educated Americans in the eighteenth century

A) faced their fiercest critic in Benjamin Franklin, who didn't believe in the validity of the scientific method.
B) taught that the scientific method should only be applied to the natural world, and not society or politics.
C) believed that reason was useless because people were predestined for salvation or damnation.
D) taught that reason should be the basis for judging every human institution, authority, and tradition.
E) believed that men and women could achieve spiritual salvation by repenting for their sins.