Embracing evolution, scholars have taught us that all life on earth first came from the sea,
gradually finding limbs and crawling its way onto land where it slowly evolved to form new
creatures, and eventually birds, animals and all other life. We are taught that in ancient times,
well before the dawn of man, strange prehistoric beasts of huge proportions ruled the earth,
enormous cold blooded reptilian creatures, which we have named Dinosaur, meaning: “Terrible
Lizard.” It is believed they first appeared around 193 million years ago and reigned supreme until
most were wiped out some 65 million years ago in the shattering impact of a meteorite or comet
fragment in the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico. The event caused mass extinctions among many
species by covering the entire globe with a cloud of dust and debris plunging the planet into a
nuclear winter and a devastating ice age. But, almost miraculously, small pockets of the
prehistoric creatures somehow withstood the ravages of cold, survived the ice age and continued
to evolve. Then there is a kind a ‘grey area’ during which the first man evolved from apes and
began life in caves some 2 to 3 million years ago. During that time primitive man is said to have
evolved from primates through to Australopithecus, Homo-Habilis; Homo-Erectus; then
Neanderthal species, which eventually declined to be replaced by Cro-Magnon a species that was
very similar to modern man that seemed to appear apparently from nowhere. Then eventually
Cro-Magnon was itself replaced when the first species of Homo-Sapiens was born about 250,
years ago. Homo-Sapiens-Sapiens or modern man is said to have first appeared about 40,
years ago, at which point it’s not considered to be too ‘grey’ anymore and we’re told that mans
history then becomes a relatively straightforward affair: Over time, man ceased dwelling in caves,
learned to become hunters and gatherers, formed villages to live within organized communities
and slowly progressed to civilization about 6,000 years ago, eventually learning to sail and travel,
and finally culminating in our current civilization and advanced level of technology.
We are therefore, in the 21st century, at the very cutting edge and peak of mans technological
achievement so far. Never before in the history of our species has man had such wonders at his
fingertips as those we have created for ourselves in the brief moment in time that is the 150 odd
years since the industrial revolution of the 1800’s – apparently.
All scientific investigation into our past up to this point has been designed to fit within this
orderly paradigm. But due to these restrictions, and even with all of the significant advances in
technology we may have made in the past 150 years, we have made very little progress in solving
the puzzles presented to us by the earths past.
The reality is that our distant history is still an enormous riddle. We only know what we do
from the gradual piecing together of the many enigmatic and confusing traces that have so far
been recovered from around the world, but our true knowledge of ancient history still remains
confusing, unknown, or fragmented at best.
All we really have are various creation myths and theories. And it must be clearly understood
here that in the case of archeology and even evolution, theories are really no more than ideas and
possibilities; one person putting forth what they see as a rational scenario based on the various
information or artifacts they have personally been able gather and study. A hypothesis or
possibility based on available evidence. These theories are then put forth to the Academic
community for peer review and when the evidence that led to the conclusions has been tested and
assessed and criticized and re-assessed and re-criticized and the idea has been deemed agreeable
by all parties, an overall assumption of fact is born. This “fact” can then be used as a basis, or
‘rule of thumb,’ for further studies; that is, until someone else comes along and disproves it by
discovering and proving a new ‘fact’. That is how peer review works.
For example: the theory encompassing the entire history of mans ascension that was just
described for you on the second page was surmised from scientists studying a total collection of a
mere 200 hundred bone fragments, which was the entire amount that had been excavated and
recovered from around the world at the time. And the theory has never really been subject to any
serious revision or academic challenge.
The entire theory is also based on the assumption that Darwin was correct...
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