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Before the 6th century, scientific theories were mostly based on gods, and not fact, but this came to an end when early Greek scientists started to research science.This new era of science started with Democritus who stated that all things are made of atoms.Then it moved to Parmenides who stated that nothing changes in the universe, which has later been proven wrong by Heraclites who stated that everything is moving.Then there was the group of professors, called the sophists, who concluded that it is pointless to search for absolute truth in nature or morals.And for the most part was capped off with Socrates who stated that "the unexamined life is not worth living" (Gunner 29).
Democritus was the man who started it all by stating that all things are made up of atoms.Now this theory was not all created by Democritus.He just expanded the theory of Leucippus."They account" said Democritus "for everything that has been or ever will be" (Gunner 27).This was a huge break through for all of science.Nothing like this had ever been thought of, and now Democritus has this theory about everything in the universe being made up of these little tiny things called atoms.The only problem with his theory is that he also stated that the atom couldn't be broken, that it was the smallest possible thing in the universe, which was proved wrong later down the line.
The next scientist to come along was Parmenides.He came to the conclusion that everything in the universe is eternal and unchanging.His theory was that "Change required motion, he reasoned, and motion required empty space.But empty space equals nonexistence, which by definition does not exist" (Gunner 28).He admitted that things do appear to be moving, but that is just an illusion of the senses, and was contradicted by logic, and logic was the most reliable truth.
Now even though what Parmenides said did help move a…