Here I have a thing on Xenophanes: He was a Pre-Sokratic Greek philosopher who believed many things I agree with (besides an infinite earth). His reasoning behind a one true God is interesting (he argues that in infinity, there must be a perfect. For it to be perfect, it had to have no begining or end or equal. It had to have made everything, because it would be imperfect if it hadn't.)
But the real interesting part is his archeological evidence of the earth being under water, or atleast mingled with water at some time. In bold below, I have all I have been able to find on this matter. Everything else, is just thrown in for interests. The places he mentions are, infact, islands. It does not mention his inland mountains in which he finds shells. On the other places, he finds various fossils. I do not know of Paros or Melite. But, I know Syracuse to be an island.
Hipp. Philos. i. 14; Dox. 565. Xenophanes of Kolophon, son of Orthomenes, lived to the time of Cyrus. He was the first to say that all things are in- comprehensible, in the following verses: (Frag. 14) 'For even if one chances for the most part to say what is true, still he would not know ; but every one thinks he [Page 83] knows.' [Epiph. adv. Haer. iii. 9; Dox. 590] And he says that nothing comes into being , nor is anything destroyed, nor moved; and that the universe is one and is not subject to change. And he says that god is eternal and one, homogeneous throughout, limited, spherical, with power of sense- perception in all parts.[Zeller, Vorsokr. Phil. 543, n. 1.] And Xenophanes believes that once the earth was mingled with the sea, but in the course of time it became freed from moisture; and his proofs are such as these: that shells are found in the midst of the land and among the mountains, that in the quarries of Syracuse the imprints of a fish and of seals had been found, and in Paros the imprint of an anchovy at some depth in the stone, and in Melite shallow impressions of all sorts of sea products. He says that these imprints were made when everything long ago was covered with mud, and then the imprint dried in the mud. Farther he says that all men will be destroyed when the earth sinks into the sea and becomes mud, and that the race will begin anew from the beginning; and this transformation takes place for all worlds.
I mentioned in another thread, that, after posting this information, I would leave these forums. I am way too busy, and these things are addictive. I'll stick around till this dies, and then I'm gone for a few months or so. If you see me posting after this thread, tell me to leave. I don't need to be reading posts when I am juggling two jobs and college. I'll be back.- vote for me.
But the real interesting part is his archeological evidence of the earth being under water, or atleast mingled with water at some time. In bold below, I have all I have been able to find on this matter. Everything else, is just thrown in for interests. The places he mentions are, infact, islands. It does not mention his inland mountains in which he finds shells. On the other places, he finds various fossils. I do not know of Paros or Melite. But, I know Syracuse to be an island.
Hipp. Philos. i. 14; Dox. 565. Xenophanes of Kolophon, son of Orthomenes, lived to the time of Cyrus. He was the first to say that all things are in- comprehensible, in the following verses: (Frag. 14) 'For even if one chances for the most part to say what is true, still he would not know ; but every one thinks he [Page 83] knows.' [Epiph. adv. Haer. iii. 9; Dox. 590] And he says that nothing comes into being , nor is anything destroyed, nor moved; and that the universe is one and is not subject to change. And he says that god is eternal and one, homogeneous throughout, limited, spherical, with power of sense- perception in all parts.[Zeller, Vorsokr. Phil. 543, n. 1.] And Xenophanes believes that once the earth was mingled with the sea, but in the course of time it became freed from moisture; and his proofs are such as these: that shells are found in the midst of the land and among the mountains, that in the quarries of Syracuse the imprints of a fish and of seals had been found, and in Paros the imprint of an anchovy at some depth in the stone, and in Melite shallow impressions of all sorts of sea products. He says that these imprints were made when everything long ago was covered with mud, and then the imprint dried in the mud. Farther he says that all men will be destroyed when the earth sinks into the sea and becomes mud, and that the race will begin anew from the beginning; and this transformation takes place for all worlds.
I mentioned in another thread, that, after posting this information, I would leave these forums. I am way too busy, and these things are addictive. I'll stick around till this dies, and then I'm gone for a few months or so. If you see me posting after this thread, tell me to leave. I don't need to be reading posts when I am juggling two jobs and college. I'll be back.- vote for me.
