Sentences with phrase «century age of reason»

What the west has experienced that the Middle East (and therefore Islamic cultures) did not experience was the 17th - 18th century Age of Reason (also known as the Age of Enlightenment).

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Martinipaul — The reason I actively oppose Christians is that you want to base 21st Century social policy on a collection of Bronze Age myths from the Middle East.

I think it is sad that, in the 21st Century, most major newspapers still carry astrology columns and that the Bronze Age mythology of Adam and Eve is still seen as true by about 40 % of the country, but things are changing slowly, as the inevitable forces of science and reason pry open even the most firmly closed of creationist minds.

The Age of Reason in the late 18th century pressed this approach even further, looking behind the scriptures to discover the historical reality.

The height of modernity in the eighteenth century is called the «age of reason.»

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, and the age of science of the 20th century made us the good part of what we aAge of Reason, and the age of science of the 20th century made us the good part of what we aage of science of the 20th century made us the good part of what we are.

An 18th - century film with an 18th - century viewpoint about the passion seething beneath the Age of Reason.

In the federal government, Social Security's original retirement age of 65 was updated almost half a century after the initial act was passed (prompted mainly because of fiscal reasons).

(19th - century cooling - based estimates for the age of the earth were very inaccurate for this reason.)