I. Introduction
There is little said about the prehistory of man and in what the people at that time believed in. Following the first beginnings of believing in supernatural were in the ancient times (3500 BC - 500) when the written and spoken word appeared, various civilizations established various beliefs in the creation of the world, gods, and man. Egyptians had their Egyptian polytheistic religion (their gods Atum, Ra, Amun, etc.), Greek also practice a polytheistic religion having gods for each occasion and virtue (which were later adopted by the Romans), Jews believe/d in Yahweh. Among the various Greek and Roman school of thoughts, the atomists in particular Titus Lucretius Carus, a poet and philosopher supported the idea of biological evolution.
The later rise of new monotheistic religions like Christianity and Islam gave a theological explanation of the creation of the world and man. The Book of Genesis in Judaism's Torah, the Christian Bible, and Islam's Qur'an all talk......
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