古希腊哲学家色诺芬尼最早对化石进行了描述,并且准确地推测出化石是在经历了漫长的地质演变之后留下来的生物遗迹。这在中世纪的欧洲成了离经叛道的观点,因为基督教《圣经》已清楚表明,自从上帝创造世界到现在,只有区区数千年,没有为地质演变提 The ancient Greek philosopher Xenophonius first described the fossils and accurately speculated that the fossils were the remains of the remains after a long geological evolution. This became a deviant point of view in medieval Europe, for the Christian Bible has made it clear that since the creation of the world by God until now, only a few thousand years have passed without geological evolution