They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them.
For ever since the world was created,
people have seen the earth and sky.
Through everything God made,
they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature.
So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
Romans 1:19,20 NLT
explanations for any observations or events that could be considered natural phenomena (such as origins) and thus set the foundation for naturalism, a philosophy based on the fundamental premise that anything supernatural is essentially fiction. Since, according to Thales, there can be no supernatural cause for the universe and logic does not allow something to cause itself, the universe must be eternal. The concept of naturalism might lead to the explanation of many everyday natural phenomena, but it fails miserably in explaining origins. Yet this premise is the foundation for a worldview that has dominated modern science for the last three centuries." ICR
So you see, T(h)ales of evolution stretch back to the 6th century B.C. .....