In the philosophy books, the first name generally is that of a man Thales, who lived at Miletus about 600 B.C.
Scientific knowledge in the two hundred years from 1500 to 1700 AD expanded enormously.
Within a period 200 years scientific knowledge increased enormously, but many scientists focused on the material world to the exclusion of the supernatural God.
I want you to consider the enormous growth in scientific knowledge in the 200 years after 1500: 1500–1700.
This paper deals not with the history of evolution as a theory during the last hundred years, but rather with the background influences that have enabled the theory to be widely accepted.
Paradigm is a big and unfamiliar word which means “framework of ideas” or the belief on which you hang your hat.
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