Creation vs Evolution

The theory of evolution did not originate with Charles Darwin as many people assume. The truth is that at the time of Moses’ sojourn in Egypt, the teaching of evolution and the results of evolution were uppermost in educational circles. The ancient Egyptian professors maintained that all life had its origin in a tiny white animal that was found in the Nile River. It is true that modern widespread acceptance of evolution does date from the publication of Darwin’s “Origin of Species”, however many scientists and philosophers before Darwin held this theory. Belief in spontaneous generation of life from non-living material and in transformations of species was quite common among the ancients. Among the early Greeks Anaximander taught that men had evolved from fish and Empedocles that animals had been derived from plants.