THE BIBLE TELLS US WHEN THE FIRST CIVILISATION DEVELOPED
Evolution teaches that modern man has been around for 200 000 years. Any time during that period, by pure dumb luck, civilisation could have started.
Dumb luck is, after all, the evolutionist's "god".
The Bible teaches that modern man was placed on earth 6000 years ago, then came Noah’s flood 2400 BC making this the earliest starting date for modern civilisation.
All pre-flood civilisations would have been wiped out leaving only traces of pre-flood humans.
The Bible also teaches that humans were not created primitive, but possibly superior to us today. So there was nothing stopping civilisation from beginning instantly after the flood, from a Biblical perspective. There surely were pre-flood civilisations which now lie buried.
There is general consensus by historians that the “cradle of civilisation” was Sumeria. This is exactly where the Bible says civilisation began.
Gen 11:1-2 "
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.” Shinar = Sumer.
Here is one of many internet sites stating when human civilisation began.
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab25
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Our knowledge of prehistory derives from surviving objects - the evidence of archaeology. History, by contrast, is based on documents. These various interconnections mean that history, civilization and writing all begin at the same time. That time is about 3100 BC.
Mesopotamia and Egypt: 3100 BC
In about 3200 BC the two earliest civilizations develop in the region where southwest Asia joins northeast Africa. Great rivers are a crucial part of the story. The Sumerians settle in what is now southern Iraq, between the mouths of the Euphrates and the Tigris. Egypt develops in the long narrow strip of the Nile valley.
Rivers offer two main advantages to a developing civilization. They provide water to irrigate the fields, and they offer the easiest method of transport for a society without paved roads. Rivers will play an equally important role in two other early civilizations - those of the Indus and of northern China.
The Indus: 2500 BC
It is not known whether contact with Mesopotamia inspires the first civilization of India or whether it is a spontaneous local development, but by about 2500 BC the neolithic villages along the banks of the Indus are on the verge of combining into a unified and sophisticated culture….”
When one tries to look up how accurate their dating methods are, we see there is lots of room for error. So the above dates are close enough to the Biblical date.
Evolution gave us 200 000 years in which civilisation could have developed. The Bible told us it developed right after the flood, even telling us where it developed. Why is it that in 200 000 possible years of supposed human evolution there is no sign of civilisation, till it bursts on the scene at more-or-less the date stated in the Bible? What are the chances that humans were retarded for 195 600 years or 97.8% of their history, and then suddenly became super-smart? And, "coincidently", this date just happened to be the Biblical date.
Was it because Moses lived in one of the most ancient civilisations that he knew when civilisation started?
There were plenty of other places such as in the Americas that Moses knew nothing of. Was Moses just a lucky guesser?
Either way, it adds great credibility to the Biblical record.
And when on reads how advanced and modern Sumerian civilisation was, one realises that these were NOT PRIMITIVE people, which is also what the Bible says. I will try to list all the mod-cons their civilisation had, in a later post.
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