Evolution, progress and natural laws were intimately related in understanding of nature.

The most serious challenge religion met in 19th century was from the field of biology. In ideology, politics and society, Victorians created astonishing innovations and changes: democracy, feminism, unionization, of workers, socialism, Marxism and other modern movement took from.

In religion, the Victorians experienced a great age of doubt, and people began to raise doubts about institutional Christianity on large scale. In science and technology, the Victorians brought forth the modern idea of ‘invention’ the notion that one could create solutions to the problems that man could create new means of bettering himself and his environment. ‘Victorian period saw the various ideas appear frequently. Liang Zhang described the Victorian age in his article ‘A Moral World Without God: On the Religion of Humanity of George Eliot in Silas Marner’ like that: In this period church lost its power and authority on people against science. They chose to do business and scientific work. After the industrialization, the amount of people who wanted to be priest or minister was too little. Because of depending on church blindly they could not see their right before those bulk of developments. Thanks to these developments, people got a comfort and they started to pull away from religion and spirituality. Communication became easier and travelling was not hard anymore. After industrial revolution the job opportunities expand and the people who lived in country started to come to cities for work. Because of these advancements there was a rise on the level of literacy. The emergence of scientific ideologies were the main reason on decreasing of old religious beliefs and superstitions. It was because of industrialization and new developments in science. But, after a while people started to question the religion. They read Bible deeply and organized their life according to Bible and church. There were many churches having visited by people. In Victorian age, religion was very popular for a while.

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