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Supernatural Explaniation In Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greeks looked at different things through different points of view. They looked at weather and decided it was from the gods, but late came to a conclusion that it was naturally happening. Greeks were the first to develop the theory that supernatural explaniations are not the only way to have the world explained. They also developed that babies are helpless on their own, so we must have evolved. We have been impacted by these discoverirs because we know that there are ways to explain things such as weather and evolution. We had been given an idea and studies further into it to see what actually happened. Ancient Greece searched for ideas on how th universe works, the same as we do today. They developed the begining of physics studied

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