Puritans VS Rationalist

Puritans really believe that god put us here, and that everything that happened in the world was up to him. That wasn't the case with Rationalist. Rationalist believe that everything that happened in the world had something to do with science. They believed that anything could be understood through science. Puritans took this as an insult since they believed that god controlled everything, and humans had no business trying to explain or deconstruct god's work.