Philosophy Before Socrates - Early Ionian Achievement

Is the early Ionian approach to accounting for the events in the world an improvement over that of the Old Testament? That depends on the parameters and definitions of the comparison. For simplicity's sake, we will let "account of the events in the world" include how the world came to be in the first place and how it is now. An improvement is defined as an account based on stronger logical (or scientific) foundation, since logic is the pervading method of accounting for things in present day Western civilization. Logic is the study of necessary truths and of systematic methods for clearly…