Abstract
Gallant starts his investigation with the chapter "Where Did We Come From?" and believes that religion provides no answer because of its multitude of conflicting opinions. He writes that the history of humans’ search for beginnings has passed from myth to philosophy to science. The empirical approach may have started with Xenophanes in the sixth century BC. His study of fossils led him to the conclusion that much habitable land had once been covered with water. During the Dark Ages, many people believed that fossils were the devil’s unsuccessfully attempts to create animals.