Diogenes relates that Sotion said he was a " hearer " of Xenophanes, which contradicts Heraclitus'statement ( so says Diogenes ) that he had taught himself by questioning himself.
32.
While Xenophanes is rejecting Homeric theology, he is not questioning the presence of a divine entity, rather his philosophy is a critique on Ancient Greek writers and their conception of divinity.
33.
Xenophanes of Colophon prefigured paleontology and geology as he thought that periodically the earth and sea mix and turn all to mud, citing several fossils of sea creatures that he had seen.
34.
A fragment from Xenophanes ( 6th century BC ) shows the transition from " Chaos " to " Apeiron " : " The upper limit of earth borders on air.
35.
Xenophanes espoused a belief that " God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind . " He maintained there was one greatest God.
36.
In pre-Christian times, fossils found on land were thought by Greek philosophers, including Xenophanes, Genesis Flood, and later Martin Luther viewed fossils as having resulted from the Flood.
37.
Rodr�guez-L�pez also created a video for " Asco Que Conmueve los Puntos Er�genos ", from " Xenophanes ", and posted it on YouTube on November 30, 2009.
38.
Euhemerus was not the first to attempt to rationalize mythology in historical terms, as euhemeristic views are found in earlier writings including those of Xenophanes, Herodotus, Hecataeus of Abdera and Ephorus.
39.
Xenophanes, the philosopher of Elea, also spent the latter years of his life in the city so that it was evidently, at an early period, a place of cultivation and refinement.
40.
Burnet says that Xenophanes was not, however, a scientific man, with many of his " naturalistic " explanations having no further support than that they render the Homeric gods superfluous or foolish.
