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Several data points affirm that the human species has been around for about 200,000 years. Along the Omo River in Ethiopia, two partial human skulls were unearthed which dated to around 196,000 years ago.[1] Three partial human skulls were uncovered at Herto, Ethiopia, which dated to 160,000 years ago. This find was especially important because one of the skulls is nearly complete. Its distinctly human face has even been preserved.[2] Besides fossils, mitochondrial DNA indicates that we arose some 200,000 years ago in Africa.[3] Interestingly, we had the same brain size back then as we do today. Yet, for the vast majority of the time our species has been alive, we have been living like animals. Civilization came late in the game, and only accounts for about 2.75% of the time Homo sapiens has existed as a species. The first civilization on earth was ancient Sumer in modern day southern Iraq. Its emergence was sudden and unprecedented. Sumerian civilization seems to have been born overnight. Pottery, the wheel, division of labor, organized religion, government, warfare, manufacture of tools, written language, agriculture, city building, fortification all the critical elements of human civilization were innovated within the fourth millennium BCE. This happened along the Euphrates River. Interestingly, Genesis specifically states that the Garden of Eden was by the Euphrates River.[4] Prior to Sumerian civilization, humans had been hunter-gatherers for 200,000 years. They traveled in small family clans. They had no written language. They had primitive tools. They had no kings, no governments, and no organized religion. Nowhere on the entire earth did any humans generate anything like civilization. These were humans like us. We are not talking about Neanderthals. Neanderthals were a separate species, and DNA analysis demonstrates that they were not our ancestors.[5] We are not talking about ape-people either. Ape-people, that is the genus Australopithecus, went extinct about 1.8 million years ago, long before we arrived. Neither are we discussing Homo erectus, whose name does not necessarily imply that primitive hominids practiced same-sex stimulation. We are strictly discussing humans, Homo sapiens, the same species we are today. For 200,000 years, humans like us lived like animals! They were just like us anatomically, and in terms of brain

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size. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, we became civilized.

Why, after 200,000 years of living like animals did we abruptly decide to start living like we do today? Why did civilization come about?

Naturalistic evolutionists have an answer the end of the most recent glacial period of the present ice ages. Earth has experienced ice ages for about three million years. Not all that time has been spent in cold temperatures. Rather, there have been about 20 cycles of cold snaps and warm spells.[6] The cold snaps are called "glacial" periods. The warm spells are called "interglacial" periods. About ten thousand years ago, the last glacial period came to an end. Earths weather became much more pleasant. We entered into one of the interglacial cycles. Fertile earth began to emerge in places that had once been covered with ice and snow. People came out of their caves and discovered how to plant crops. Previously, during the glacial period, the growing seasons had been much shorter, which retarded the development of agriculture. But now, the warm summer months lasted long enough to grow and harvest food. Agricultural production became more attractive than hunting and gathering. Instead of freezing in a tent, people could build a house and live there indefinitely. Instead of battling wild animals with spears, people could raise domesticated livestock. Instead of climbing trees to pick bananas, people could reach down to dig up a potato. The agricultural life was much better.

The new way of obtaining food demanded a new society. People could no longer live in small tribes. They needed to build cities and forts to defend their food stores from thieves. They needed people to administer the cities. Kings were inaugurated for this purpose. They needed priests to appease the gods so that bad weather did not destroy their crops. Certain aspects of religion were invented for this purpose. They needed some way to till the ground and harvest their crops. New tools were invented for that purpose.

The end of the last glacial period of the ice ages made agriculture possible. Agriculture made civilization possible. Civilization made technology possible, and that is why we stopped living like animals.

That's the naturalists' explanation. But is this explanation adequate? One problem with the view presented above is that the emergence of civilization really doesnt correspond with the end of the last glacial period as they claim. Civilization first began about 3,500 BCE. But the last glacial period of the ice age had already ended some 4,500 years before in 8,000 BCE. Since 8,000 BCE, the average temperature of the earth has not varied any more than two degrees Celsius.[7] Temperatures have been enormously stable. The warm climate we have today is the same climate humans enjoyed in 8,000 BCE. Variations from the norm

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have been comparatively minimal. Did it really take humankind a full 4,500 years to realize that agricultural civilization was the wave of the future? And if so, if they only progressed toward civilization gradually over 4,500 years, then why did all major elements of civilization emerge so suddenly in 3,500 BCE?

Another problem is that there have been other interglacial periods during humanitys existence. About 125,000 years ago, an interglacial period started that was similar to the one we are currently living in. It afforded early humans about 10,000 years of warm weather like ours before the earth was battered by another cold snap.[8] The humans who were living then had all the same opportunities that we did. They had the same mild climates we enjoy today. They basked in warm temperatures comparable to ours today. Most importantly, they were humans just like we are today, with the same anatomy, same brain size, and presumably the same intellectual capability. Why didnt they create civilization? In just 5,500 years, civilization has brought us from jungle bunnies to computer geeks, from barbarians to cell phone junkies, from nomads to moon walkers. 125,000 years ago, humans had a 10,000 year window to accomplish everything we accomplished in just 5,500 years. Why didnt they? If civilization was caused by the end of an ice age, then why didnt the last interglacial 125,000 years ago cause the formation of human civilization back then? Moreover, there was a third interglacial about 185,000 to 215,000 years ago, about the same time our species first arrived on the scene. So humanity has been on the earth long enough to enjoy three long periods of very agreeable weather, and yet civilization only managed to take root the third time around. If civilization was made possible by an interglacial warm spell, then why didnt civilization emerge the other two times we enjoyed a respite from the ice ages? If the end of the most recent glacial period did not clear the way for civilization, what did? Is it possible that there was a change in our intelligence without a change in our biology? Is it possible we suddenly got smarter without a change in our brain size? And what might cause such a sudden change in intelligence?

For 200,000 years, we lived as animals. Then, civilization suddenly began about the same time Adam and Eve are said to have been created. Perhaps the injection of Adam and Eve's super-human God-created DNA into the gene pool of the cave-people is what made the difference.

Click here to find out more about Adam and Eve and the Cave People Too.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by many ancient Christian texts. Instead of an Almighty Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the universe is born from blind arrogance and stupidity. The



angels caused evolution to occur from species to species. There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is just one among them. Satan the Devil writes scripture, and thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1. Archaeology and modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed corrupted. Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve. Esoteric prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the dark forces that govern the cosmos. Such are the ancient Christian writings.

Sciencevindicates the truth of these ideas. Evolution often happens too fast for Darwins theory. Gaps in the fossil record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts together with natural selection. Astrobiology reveals that intelligent life probably evolved long before us. The fossil record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species. Evidently, aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the worlds religions.

This is not fiction. All these facts are thoroughly documented in the links above.

[1] McDougall, Ian; Brown, Frank; Fleagle, John. Stratigraphic Placement and Age of Modern Humans from Kibish, Ethiopia. 2005, Nature 433, p 733-736

[2] Stringer, Chris. Human Evolution: Out of Ethiopia. 2003, Nature 423, p 692-694

[3] Cann, Rebecca L; Stoneking, Mark; Wilson, Allan C. Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution. 1987, Nature 325, p 31-36

[4] Genesis 2:14

[5] Jobling, Mark A; Hurles, Matthew E; Tyler-Smith, Chris. Human Evolutionary Genetics: Origins, Peoples & Disease. 2004, Garland Publishing, New York, NY, p 260-261

[6] Gould, Stephen Jay; Andrews, Peter; Barber, John; Benton, Michael; Collins, Marianne; Janis, Christine; Kish, Ely; Morishima, Akio; Sepkoski, J John Jr; Stringer, Christopher; Tibbles, Jean-Paul; Cox, Steve. The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth. 2001, W W Norton & Co, New York, NY, p 208

[7] Jouzel, J; Lorius, C; Petit, J R; Genthon, C; Barkov, N I; Kotlyakov, V M; Petrov, V M. Vostok Ice Core: A Continuous Isotope Temperature Record Over the Last Climatic Cycle (160,000 years). 1987, Nature 329, p 403-408

[8] EPICA Community Members. Eight Glacial Cycles from an Antarctic Ice Core. Jun 10, 2004, Nature 429, p 623-628



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