To him, the structure and form of organisms could be understood from their function which in turn was designed to achieve ultimate goodness and harmony imposed by an external creator.Īristotle, the father of biology, expanded this idea to include the development of organisms and the origins of groups of organisms. Plato's idealistic views had a profound effect on biology.
Their idealistic view of striving for perfection laid the foundations for a naturalistic view of origins. Plato (428-348 BC) and Aristotle (384-322 BC) were the philosophers that probably had the greatest impact on western thought. However, naturalistic models of origins based on logic and philosophy can be traced to about the fifth century BC in Greece. From the earliest times, the existence of life has mostly been attributed to supernatural intervention.
The question of origins has always fascinated the human mind.
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