Question

how did the catholic church respond to the scientific revolution? the church tested new theories to prove or disprove them. the church embraced new discoveries as signs from god. the church persecuted scientists who challenged religious teachings. the church supported the work of some scientists but not others.

Answer 1

The church persecuted scientists who challenged religious teaching,

Some might tell you otherwise but a prime example would be Galileo, excommunicated from the church (which at the time was something huge), for his outlandish ideas. 

Answer 2

The third alternative is correct (C).

During the Middle Ages, the Church exercised cultural and scientific power and influence, based on its incontestable dogmas.

When the scientific revolution began to prove that the natural sciences functioned under laws that did not conform to the precepts of the Church, scientists were persecuted by the Church.

One example was the challenge to the Theory of Geocentrism, which assumed that the Earth was the center of the Universe and that the Sun revolved around the Earth.

When Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei proposed the Heliocentrism Theory, which claimed the opposite of Geocentric Theory, the Sun that was the center of the Universe and the Earth revolved around the Sun, the Church persecuted them and Galileo was condemned to die at the stake. He had to deny his findings so as not to die.

Years later, the Church recognized its errors and accepted the theory of Heliocentrism.