... clearly the rise of materialism and the decline of religion. The first of the four thinkers is Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Darwin among other things was a naturalist and a priest in the Church of England. Because of his strong interest in biology Darwin examined many different species of animals. Charles Darwin was a highly educated man and he used this education to write two important works. These works were the Origin of Species (1559) and Decent of Man (1870 ... ). Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German Philosopher who like Darwin had strong ties with the church being that his ....

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... . The exact same thing happened to Charles Darwin. In 1837, Darwin was traveling aboard the H.M.S. Beagle in the Pacific Ocean and dropped anchor at the Galapagos Islands. Darwin found a wide array of animals therein. These differences in animals sparked Darwin to perform research, which lasted well up to his death and culminated in the publishing of The Origin of Species in 1858. He stated that these ... had not appeared out of thin air but had evolved from other species through evolution and natural selection. This sparked ... a firestorm of criticism, for most people at this time acc...

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... today lasted two millennia, until the Renaissance period in the 16th and 17th century. Aristotle was born in 384 BC to Nicomachus, a physician of Mayntas II of Macedon. He was born in Chalcis, and later moved to Athens in 367 BC. He became a student at Plato's Academy, where he was ... him trying to attain his goal. "Aristotle applied this method, with characteristic emphasis on telogical explaination, to astronomical and biological explorations of the natural world." (Dhawan 1) One field that Aristotle created that is still studied heavily today is metaphysics. Where as physics is ... G...

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