Greek Chaos and the Big Bang

We all know the Abrahamic view on how the earth was formed and how Adam and Eve were created, but the ancient Greeks had a view on both that amazingly matches modern views.

In regard to the origin of the world, the ancient Greeks believed that there once existed a confused mass of shapeless elements called Chaos which resolved themselves into two substances -- the lighter of which formed the sky, and the heavier of which formed the earth.

The two substances then became gods -- Uranus ruled the sky and was the protective father, and Gaea ruled the earth and was the nourishing mother.

The ancient Greeks first believed that man had sprung from the earth. They saw how plants forced their way through the earth in spring, and naturally concluded that man must originally have come from the earth in a similar manner. They supposed that original man had no cultivation and was like the beasts of the field, living wild.

It was not exactly evolution -- as Chaos was not exactly the Big Bang -- but considering that the two theories were put forward about four thousand years ago, or earlier, they were pretty smart.

All that changed when the Greeks became civilized and elites emerged to control the city states and the thoughts of everyone within their sphere of influence.


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