Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: His paintings of the birth of science out of alchemy , often based on the meetings of the Lunar Society , a group of very influential scientists and industrialists living in the English Midlands , are a significant record of the struggle of science against religious values in the period known as the Age of Enlightenment .
Simplified: His paintings of early science in the English Midlands show the Age of Enlightenment .