The path of no-thing
1200 BC – The first “official” Atheistic schools are found in Hinduism and have existed since the times of the Veda’s.
500 BC – Greek philosopher Diagoris is known as the “first atheist” who viewed religion as a human invention used to frighten people into following moral order.
471–399 BC – Socrates was accused of hieracy on the basis that he inspired questioning of the state Gods. He disputed the accusation that he was a “complete atheist”, saying that he could not be a true atheist as he believed in spirits.
410 BC – Plato student of Socrates, Mysticism, Philosophy & Math, Platonic Solids questions the existence of God.
347 BC – Aristotle student of Plato brings new thought to Physics and Metaphysics continuing the philosophical debate.
330–260 BC – Euhemurus published his view that the gods were only the deified rulers, conquerors and founders of the past, and that their cults and religions were in essence the continuation of vanished kingdoms and earlier political structures. Although not strictly an atheist, Euhemerus was later criticized for having “spread atheism over the whole inhabited earth by obliterating the gods”.
341–270 BC – Epicurus disputed many religious doctrines, he considered the soul purely material and mortal. He did not rule out the existence of gods, he believed that if they did exist, they were unconcerned with humanity.
99–55 BC – The Roman poet Lucretius believed that there were gods, but they were unconcerned with humanity and unable to affect the natural world. For this reason, he believed humanity should have no fear of the supernatural.
381 AD – The early Christians were labeled atheists by non-Christians because of their disbelief in pagan gods. Christians were executed for their rejection of Roman Gods and Emperor-worship in particular.
1500 – Leonardo da Vinci sought experimentation as a means of explanation of spiritual phenomenon
1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his “De Revolutionus” – Heliocentric view
1609 – Galileo builds telescope – defends Copernicum model is put under house arrest.
1841 - Ludwig Feuerbach‘s The Essence of Christianity influenced philosophers such as Engels, Marx, David Strauss, Nietzsche, and Max Stirner. He considered God to be a human invention and religious activities to be wish-fulfillment.
1838 – Michael Faraday discovers cathode rays – the beginning of Quantum Mechanics
1864 – James Maxwell shows that electricity, magnetism and light are interrelated.
1900 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian – writes War & Peace, The kingdom of God is Within You
1905 – Albert Einstein developed the theory of Special Relativity – secret of stars
1915 – Albert Einstein developed the theory of General Relativity – space warps
1921 – Kaluza-Klein theory describes 4 dimensions – length, width, height and time
1921 – Albert Einstein receives Nobel Prize in Physics for theory on energy
1929 – Hans Berger introduces the first EEG to measure brainwaves
1950 – Carl Jung Swiss Psychotherapist sees archetypal patterns that define the collective conscious
1970 – A group of physicists collaborate to develop the concept of “String Theory”
1990 – Hubble Telescope is launched to take photos of the universe.
1996 – Black Hole understood which opens concept of parallel dimensions
2001 – Michio Kaku explains Superstrings and the 10th dimension – vibrations
2008 – Large Hadron Collider begins smashing proton beams to measure energy
2010 – Scientist searching for the “Theory of Everything”
