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A long time before the Western Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the delivery of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Faith provoked skepticism in traditional Greece, and heretics argued that record must be understood as a result of individuals action alternatively than divine involvement. They devised ideas of the cosmos based on matter and notions of matter based on atoms. They developed numerical tools that may be applied to the globe around them and attempted to understand that world in materials terms. Their skepticism remaining a wealthy legacy of books, philosophy, and research and was defended by great freelance writers like Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, and Lucian. Tim Whitmarsh says the storyplot of the tension between orthodoxy and heresy with great panache, a story that ended - for the moment - with the imposition of Christianity on the Roman Empire in 313 CE.
