Science undermined a belief in God through:
A) the use of microscopes and telescopes, which revealed useless worlds far beyond the range of human senses, irrelevant to humanity, the supposed culmination of God's Creation.
B) mechanical philosophy, which eliminated a need for divine action in the universe.
C) the revelation of the needless complexity of objects and systems, which seemed incompatible with the design of an intelligent Creator.
D) an application of geometry and ethics to prove the single substance of the universe that was nature.
E) There is no evidence to suggest that scientific discoveries in the seventeenth century actually undermined religious faith. For many, these discoveries provided new evidence of God's existence.
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