who was the greek philosopher who first tried to put forth a theory regarding the origin of man?
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One of the earliest Greek philosophers, Thales of Miletus (c. 7th century BC), maintained that the universe contained a creative force that he called physis, an early progenitor of the term physics; he also postulated that the world and all living things in it were made from water.\n\nwant proof....see ths site.http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-48831
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Here you go ... much more info at the links.....\n\nAncient Greece is considered by historians to be the foundation for all cultures of Western Civilization.\n\nPtolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, three of which would be of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science.\n\nCopernicus was one of the great polymaths of the Renaissance. He was a mathematician, astronomer, jurist, physician, classical scholar, governor, administrator, diplomat, economist and soldier. \n\nGalileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher who is closely associated with the scientific revolution.  His achievements include improvements to the telescope, a variety of astronomical observations, and effective support for Copernicanism. \n\nJohannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and an early writer of science fiction stories.  He is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi and the textbook Epitome of Copernican Astronomy.\n\nSir Isaac Newton, (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher, regarded by many as the greatest figure in the history of science.\n\nEdwin Hubble was an American astronomer (1889-1953), who discovered that the further away a galaxy is, the faster it is moving away, which led to the conclusion that the universe is expanding.\n\nAlbert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist widely known as one of the greatest physicists of all time.  He formulated the special and general theories of relativity.
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The name for the theory that everything was created 'as is' is the Omphalos theory. I'm not sure about the other, but it sounds like a variant of the 'tired light' theory.
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Niether one was born but made by the hand of the Living God.  The first of the Adamic line to be actually born of course was Cain. \n\nThere is reasonable evidence to believe that the Adamic Line was not the first human line to be made, however.
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The pre-Socratic philosophers rejected traditional mythological explanations for the phenomena they saw around them in favor of more rational explanations. Many of them asked:\n\n* Where does everything come from?\n* What is it really made out of?\n* How do we explain the plurality of things found in nature?\n* How might we describe nature mathematically?\n\nOthers concentrated on defining problems and paradoxes that became the basis for later mathematical, scientific and philosophic study.
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Because it is scientific fact. But, i still think god set off evolution. Adam, as we call him, was the first reliogus human.
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anthropologist describe three distinct races...Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid..when discussing the origin of man.   Is that what you are asking?
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Hippocrates was a Greek physician born in 460 BC on the island of Cos, Greece. He became known as the founder of medicine and was regarded as the greatest physician of his time. He based his medical practice on observations and on the study of the human body. He held the belief that illness had a physical and a rational explanation. He rejected the views of his time that considered illness to be caused by superstitions and by possession of evil spirits and disfavor of the gods.\n\nHippocrates held the belief that the body must be treated as a whole and not just a series of parts. He accurately described disease symptoms and was the first physician to accurately describe the symptoms of pneumonia, as well as epilepsy in children. He believed in the natural healing process of rest, a good diet, fresh air and cleanliness. He noted that there were individual differences in the severity of disease symptoms and that some individuals were better able to cope with their disease and illness than others. He was also the first physician that held the belief that thoughts, ideas, and feelings come from the brain and not the heart as others of him time believed.\n\nHippocrates traveled throughout Greece practicing his medicine. He founded a medical school on the island of Cos, Greece and began teaching his ideas. He soon developed an Oath of Medical Ethics for physicians to follow. This Oath is taken by physicians today as they begin their medical practice. He died in 377 BC. Today Hippocrates is known as the "Father of Medicine".\n\nDesigned by: Josephine Delvey
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"The earliest known roots of the scientific method trace as far back as Imhotep (c. 2600 BC), who is credited as the orginal author of the Edwin Smith papyrus; though this work is believed to be based on earlier material as early as circa 3000 BC. The methods entailed in the Edwin Smith papyrus (circa 1600 BC), an ancient surgical textbook, reflect the basic components of the scientific method: examination, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis."\n\n"Aristotle provided yet another of the ingredients of scientific tradition: empiricism. ... In Aristotelian science, we find the beginnings of a primitive inductive method, although one that is based on collections of objects rather than experimentation."\n\n"In his enunciation of a 'method' in the 13th century Roger Bacon, under the tuition of Robert Grosseteste, was inspired by the writings of Arab alchemists who had preserved and built upon Aristotle's portrait of induction. Bacon described a repeating cycle of observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and the need for independent verification. In the 17th century, Francis Bacon attempted to describe a rational procedure for establishing causation between phenomena."
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Plato, but he was a philosopher.
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God was created (by) the first man to think of him.
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(excelent answer by Broadcaster !)\nLet me add some information too!\nAlexander (Greek “ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ”(ALEXANDROS) is considered the greatest hero of Greece. He was called great for several reasons.\n He was the first who managed to unite all the Greek states and build a gigantic Greek Empire which expanded from Greece to India (really big!!). He was the first person who took the title “Emperor of Greece”.\nHe made his small Greek kingdom of Macedon the most powerful Greek state. \nHe never lost a battle and he is considered a military genius.\nHe spread Greek language and Greek culture through out the world paving the way to Christianity.\nHe was considered from the people of the Persian Empire as a liberator and not a conqueror. \nHe fused Greek culture with Asian Elements forming the culture that was called Hellenistic (from “Hellenic” meaning “Greek”).\n{Do not confuse the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia or Macedon with the modern state of Makedonija (or FYROM or Slav Macedonia as they are not related at all). The confusion has started a few years ago because that small state started to use the name “Republic of Macedonia” causing a great confusion with real Macedonia in Greece.}
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We don't get any choice in  who we descend from. Secondly, you could argue that God planned the evolution process as many Christians argue - it is the position of the Anglican church. The Catholic position is that man may or may not have descended from the apes but God is responsible for man having a soul. Secondly, any development of evolution must ultimately be the result of God's work whether it be through evolution or other mechanisms.\n\nIndeed, Christianity or other religions with similar cosmology do not claim that man is descended from God - rather, the claim is that God made man. In Christianity, Jesus is the son of God and thus God's only descendant. \n\nI assume you are aware of the famous riposte from Thomas Huxley who invented the term agnosticism to Bishop Samuel Wilberforce.\n\n"If the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet who employs these faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape."
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You forgot one Chaos the main Greek god.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28mythology%29
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I don't think you can pick one, but if forced to it would almost unquestionably have to be Aristotle because without him science as we think of it would not exist (well, it would because some other guy like Aristotle would have come along).
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According to the Bible the first man was Adam. In Hebrew the word for man sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew word for ground.
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Many of my philosophy professors and Jungian fanatics would like to believe that every greek myth is a metaphor for some part of the human mind. \n\nHowever, there are new theories coming to light. For exacmple, the greek peninsula was, in prehistoric times, covered with dinosaurs and ice age animals. \n\nNow, it was common for a city-state to identify with a certain greek hero or god (Athens and Athena, Hereklia and Hercules, etc.) In fact, they often would construct tombs for their heroes. \n\nSo, back to the animals, if Joe-Greek walking through the wilderness comes across an enormous bone, he has to wonder what it was. Often, it is surmised, that the thigh bone of a mastadon or mammoth was taken for that of a giant or a hero (because greek heroes were literally, larger than life). \n\nIt is also suggested that the mammoth's skull, which has a circular opening in the high center (for the animals trunk) must has looked quite like the skull of a cyclopes. Considering the greeks had likely ZERO knowledge about the animals of the ice age, this seems like a safe guess. \n\nAnother example is a frilled dinosaur skeleton. We, of course see it immediately as a triceratops or one of his cousins. The greeks, would see a short tail (like a lion), claws (like a lion or alligator) a beak (like an eagle) and the frill bones, which near it's shoulders (wings maybe?)\n\nDon't let your philosophy or mythology of psychology profs. tell you it's all about the human mind. It's all about the human *interpretation* of data.