Causes: Renaissance encouraged curiosity, investigation, discovery, modern day knowledge. Caused people to question old beliefs. During the era of the Scientific Revolution, people began using experiments and mathematics to understand mysteries.
Effects: New discoveries were made, old beliefs began to be proven wrong.
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For instance, in August 2016 researchers found what appear to be fossilised microbes dating back 3.7 billion years. The Earth itself is not much older, having formed 4.5 billion years ago.