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Sternwallow wrote
It may well be that some secret atheist formulated the theory of evolution years before Darwin and prudently kept it to himself.
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I heard about this a while ago but I couldn't find anything on it for some time.
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/...BookEVOLI.html
The Ancient Greek philosopher Anaxiamander (611-547 B.C.) and the Roman philosopher Lucretius (99-55 B.C.) coined the concept that all living things were related and that they had changed over time. The classical science of their time was observational rather than experimental.
So an idea like evolution was not beyond the grasp of early civilizations.