almost 5,000 years
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ago in the fertile soils of the Middle
East Pagan religions prevailed in
Mesopotamia
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these pagans generated a number of myths
and superstitions about the origin of
life in the
universe one of these was the belief in
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evolution according to the Sumerian
anuma Alish epic life first appeared
spontaneously in water then evolving one
species from
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another many years later the myth of
evolution found fertile ground in
another Pagan civilization ancient
Greece some Greek philosophers calling
themselves materialists accepted only
the existence of matter and counted
matter as the original Source of
Life consequently they resorted to the
myth of evolution inherited from the
samarians to explain how living beings
came into
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existence thus ancient Greece became the
junction point of materialist philosophy
and the myth of
evolution the Pagan Romans later
cherished this heritage
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these two concepts from Idol worshiping
cultures were introduced to the modern
world in the 18th
century some European intellectuals
influenced by ancient Greek sources who
accordingly adopted materialism with one
common belief they were completely
against the very idea of monotheistic
religion
the book by the renowned materialist
barend debach the system of nature was
considered the principal source of
Atheism in this context the French
biologist John Baptist Lamar was the
first person to give a detailed account
of the theory of evolution Lamar's
Theory which was later refuted
maintained that living beings evolve
from one another through slight
variations over time
it was Charles Darwin who repeated and
popularized Lamar's views albe it in a
slightly different
form Darwin revealed his views in
England in 1859 through the publication
of his book the origin of the
species Darwin's book was in reality a
detailed version of The Evolution myth
originally introduced by the ancient
Sumerians his theory maintained that all
the different species species came from
a common ancestor that appeared in Water
by chance which every living species had
sprung from over time again by
chance this assertion of Darwin was not
based on clear scientific grounds and
hence was not extensively adopted by the
scientists of his
time paleontologists in particular were
aware that the entire theory was largely
a figment of his
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imagination the fossil record revealed
that living things did not undergo an
evolutionary process from primitive to
the
complex even the living things which
lived hundreds of millions of years ago
possess the same complex structures of
their counterparts living
today there was no trace of transitional
forms that Darwin assumed to have
existed and which were supposed to link
one species to
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another in the years to come other
assertions of the theory were refuted
one after another biochemistry revealed
that life was too complex to have
emerged by chance as Darwin
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claimed it was realized that even the
random formation of the simplest protein
molecule was was impossible let alone a
living cell
itself Anatomy on the other hand showed
that living beings had distinct designs
and were created
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separately in brief Darwin's theory
lacked a scientific basis however the
theory was quick to gain political
support since it did provide the
so-called scientific basis for the
dominant powers of the 19th century
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