By the End of the 17^th Century, Educated Europeans Were

By the end of the 17^th century, educated Europeans were generally

A) ready to abandon the search for a more intelligible natural science.
B) considering applying the scientific method to the study of humans.
C) impelled toward atheism by the conflicts between religion and science.
D) abandoning Bacon's empiricism for Descartes' inductive reasoning.
E) returning to religion as the center of their universe.