The Origins of the Earth

The ancient Greek conception of the world divided the globe into five climactic zones, two frozen and uninhabitable zones. Krates of Malos argued that the southern zone had to be inhabited, because Homer said so. He started a line from the Odyssey regarding the Ethiopians who dwell sundered in twain,. And argued that on each side of the equatorial ocean, there lived the Ethiopians with skin darkened by their proximity to the tropics. Augustine was not arguing against the spherical earth, he was arguing against the idea that the other side of a round earth was inhabited. The Bible said humans were created in Eden in the Northern temperate zone, and so it is too absurd that