Difference between Rationalists and Puritans

The Rationalist had a better working and thinking mind than the Puritans. I say this because the Puritans had such crazy and different beliefes than the Rationalist. Their differences are that the Rationalist thought that they could change something up by experimenting it and through the taught of science, while the Puritans hated this idea because they felt like no one should distroy or try to chnage God's work and creation. The Rationalist also thought they science would be a much easier way to understand life and to uimprove it themselves, while the Puritans thought a whole other way. The Puritans mostly thought in a way that humans have no rights and that God was all they could count on.