Can religion and science coexist?
... give you any feeling when you looked at it. The characteristics of people's faces, bodies and surroundings weren't realistic at all. Around the year 1300 began the renaissance out of it came this idea that humans were creative, could make their own choices and that science was what was reality not religion. The renaissance came out of Italy and later expanded into other countries. The world's most talented artists came out of this period. Among these famous artists were Michelangelo the sculptor of The Pieta, Moses, David and the large fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Another very important man was Leonardo Da Vinci. He was not only the great artist who painted the Mona Lisa but he drew sketches of flying machines such as the ornithopter. For a person who has been up close to one of Michelangelo's sculptures or paintings they would tell you that when you stare at the detailed figures and faces you would get emotion out of the painting. A realistic emotion that cannot be found in the artwork of the Middle Ages. There was also a different perspective on how humans live. The idea was that humans are in control of their lives and they are the ones that can create and destroy rather then god. There were positive sides and negative sides to this event. Some of the positive things that came out of this were that humans began to expand their minds more, create beautiful artwork and invented things that had to do with science. The bad thing was that some humans began to lose their morals. Religion was the thing that kept them in place. The fear of going to purgatory in too many sins were committed or being punished in life was taken out of some peoples minds because they thought that since they were in control of their own lives and that the only thing that can stop man was man. The gap between where god and humans were on the equality charts became extremely small. The churches lost power, which could have been ...