In what key ways did scientific and medical knowledge challenge old illusions about physical reality?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Challenged the idea that there is no distinction between natural and supernatural world
1. natural world is not responsive to human sin or goodness
2. encouraged naturalistic explanations of curious phenomena
B. Senses could not be trusted for truth in the physical reality
1. things can modify or change and meet new needs and roles
C. Method was needed to systematically examine the physical realities
1. investigate, order and test hypothesis
2. encouraged observation, description, classification, and experiment
D. in medicine, initial beliefs that sickness came from demons or sin beginning to be questioned
1. diet, work, and personal morale for bodily health
2. Hippocratics thought that health was essentially a state of balance among four substances in human bodies: blood, phlegm, and black and yellow bile
3. observations of the substances the body expels in pain or sickness
4. shift from religious to secular medical explanations
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