I have seen the foolish taking root: Job 5:3
".......Lack of knowledge was filled in with speculation from
mythology and influenced early science.
For instance, poor quality drawings of Egyptian baboons became corrupted and modified in 17th and 18th century images, with their subsequent depiction as loose-living forest-dwelling people, sometimes known as satyrs, orang-outangs, or Homo sylvestris.
Such speculation was even present in the work of Carl Linnaeus, and graphically illustrated by one of his students. With some controversy, Linnaeus placed apes and monkeys in the genus Homo and he tried to identify several missing links as part of an Aristotelian chain of being between apes and human beings. Linnaeus still believed in special creation, but others in the 18th century, such as Lord Monboddo, in contrast to Linnaeus argued for an evolutionary progression from ape to man.
But careless thinking about this subject in the 18th century prepared the ground for Darwin’s theory.
Historical testimony suggests that popular mythology from antiquity, and its influence upon scientific discourse, had already primed European minds to accept the idea of evolution of man from apes."
CMI
".......Lack of knowledge was filled in with speculation from
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| From left to right TROGLODYTA Boentii, LUCIFER Aldrouandi, SATYRUS Tulpii, PYGMAEUS Edwardi, from Hoppius’ academic dissertation Anthropomorpha, 1760, published by Linnaeus 1763. The illustrations gradually become more ape-like, with increasing crouch, an increasingly ape-like head, and more ape-like hands. |
For instance, poor quality drawings of Egyptian baboons became corrupted and modified in 17th and 18th century images, with their subsequent depiction as loose-living forest-dwelling people, sometimes known as satyrs, orang-outangs, or Homo sylvestris.
Such speculation was even present in the work of Carl Linnaeus, and graphically illustrated by one of his students. With some controversy, Linnaeus placed apes and monkeys in the genus Homo and he tried to identify several missing links as part of an Aristotelian chain of being between apes and human beings. Linnaeus still believed in special creation, but others in the 18th century, such as Lord Monboddo, in contrast to Linnaeus argued for an evolutionary progression from ape to man.
The belief that human beings evolved from apes developed among some European academics in the late 18th century, and not originally with Darwin in the 19th century.
But careless thinking about this subject in the 18th century prepared the ground for Darwin’s theory.
Historical testimony suggests that popular mythology from antiquity, and its influence upon scientific discourse, had already primed European minds to accept the idea of evolution of man from apes."
CMI