Modern science influenced new ideas about God from "summary" of A History of God by Karen Armstrong
During the modern period, which began in the sixteenth century, Europeans developed a new way of looking at the world. Scholars such as Copernicus and Galileo proposed a heliocentric universe, in which the earth revolved around the sun. This challenged the traditional Christian view of a geocentric universe, in which the earth was at the center of creation. As a result, people began to question the authority of the Church and the Bible in matters of science. The development of new scientific ideas led to a shift in the concept of God. Instead of a supernatural being who intervened in the world, God became seen as a distant and impersonal force that set the laws of nature in motion. This deistic view of God emphasized reason and natural law over faith and revelation. It marked a departure from the traditional Christian understanding of a person...
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