Strayer, Chapter 16 (pp.461-477)

Modern science and some Christian believers within the United States have tension within their beliefs. The relationship between religion and science have had their problems for far too long.  The Reformation began in 1517 when a man named Martian Luther voiced his opinion against the Roman Catholic Church by posting a document called the Ninety-five Theses, on a church door for everyone to see.  When Luther did this, he started a revolution in a way, by showing people its theological basis. the Reformation spread quickly and everyone was talking about it, they also saw the difference and how it can change lives.  Spanish America and China showed the difference between the following or Christian religion and then another group of people who rejected the religion.  The strong, independent, confident China had a different strategy then Europeans to expand their views.  A new way of thinking came about, the birth of science came and religion felt threatened.  In the twentieth century, science lost its name as the European culture and was known as the symbol of global modernity.