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Article extracted from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Evolution is not so much a modern discovery as some of its advocates would have us believe. It made its appearance early in Greek philosophy, and maintained its position more or less, with the most diverse modifications, and frequently confused with the idea of emanation, until the close of ancient thought. The Greeks had, it is true, no term exactly equivalent to " evolution"; but when Thales asserts that all things originated from water; when Anaximenes calls air the principle of all things, regarding the subsequent process as a thinning or thickening, they must have considered individual beings and the phenomenal world as, a result of evolution, even if they did not carry the process out in detail. Anaximander is often regarded as a precursor of the modem theory of development. He deduces living beings, in a gradual development, from moisture under the influence of warmth, and suggests the view that men originated from animals of another sort, since if they had come into existence as human beings, needing fostering care for a long time, they would not have been able to maintain their existence. In Empedocles, as in Epicurus and Lucretius, who follow in Hs footsteps, there are rudimentary suggestions of the Darwinian theory in its broader sense; and here too, as with Darwin, the mechanical principle comes in; the process is adapted to a certain end by a sort of natural selection, without regarding nature as deliberately forming its results for these ends.

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An unmagnanimous life beset the African woman for all she stands for has been twisted into a thick chord of mishap and reverse by those who see themselves as the gate-keepers cum custodians of retrogressive practices decorated as traditions.

The feminine image is accursed by this inglorious life of servitude and sexual subjugation masquerading as culture and often labeled creeds by some who irrationally held on to such antihuman attitudes.

Socrates

Socrates is showing a boy geometry. He draws this figure in the sand:

Here, a two-unit square with four little squares inside:

Then he asks the boy to notice: Each side is two. They get two squares from the top
line, but since there are also two units down the side, you have another two. So there
are four little squares inside, right?

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Some apologists of Religion have posited that morality is one of the factors for keeping Religions. According to them, man is a religious being and any attempt at obliterating this “religious genetic make-up” will spell doom for the society.

After the killings at Columbine High School ins the Littleton, Colorado. Gay Bamer, a religious right Presidential-Candidate posited that if bible and prayer were returned to the schools in USA, the violence would cease.