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100 Reasons to Choose Biblical Creation Over Evolution
83. Written History
The idea that man has existed on the planet for nearly a million years, and has slowly developed technology from the Stone Age up through the various metal ages, is purely a mental abstraction based on the belief that evolution is trueA. Again, its important to note that age cannot be measured on things such as cave art and stone tools. Scientists believe we evolved physically and culturally, and so these types of tools and art are believed to predate mankind's use of metals and so forth. The fact that some people living today still live in caves and use stone toolsB ought to alert us to the enormous uncertainty in dating artifacts this way.
Of interest is the fact that actual, written history can only be securely dated to about 5,500 years agoC. This is a figure consistent with the biblical creation account, which placed man's sudden emergence on the planet around 6,000 years ago.
83. Written History - Notes and References
A. "With the rise of Darwinsim and the theory of evolution, archaeology underwent a momentous change (see Darwin, Charles). During the second half of the 19th century the idea of the Paleolithic evolved-a period in the Stone Age that represented a stage, or level, of human development characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped-stone tools. The French archaeologist Gabriel de Mortillet refined the concept by subdividing the Paleolithic into six subperiods." Compton's Interactive Encyclopaedia, SoftKey Multimedia Inc.,1996
B. "The Tasadays: Stone Age Cavemen of Mindano", Kenneth Macleish, Nation Geographic, August, 1972, pp. 218-248
C. "The earliest writing can be traced to Sumer, in Mesopotamia. This system did not use an alphabet, instead it used pictographs which are symbols representing familiar objects. This type of writing was called cuneiform, or wedge-shaped writing. Egyptians used hieroglyphics, also a pictograph system. The use of an alphabet probably originated among the Phoenicians sometime between 1700 and 1500 BC. This Semitic writing had only consonants; the ancient Greeks later came up with the idea of vowels. The Chinese writing system, also very ancient, maintained its pictograph character instead of developing an alphabet." Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia, 1997, see Timeline: World, detailed view: 3100 BC: Development of writing
"Records of daily life and world events have been kept since writing was invented 5,500 years ago; archaeologists search among the ruins for clues to what happened before that in the two millions years people have lived on Earth…People were unable to record the events of their times until the invention of writing, some 5,500 years ago. So we have to piece together the events before that from objects that ancient peoples have left behind, such as their cave dwellings, or the ruins of buildings." From "The World Almanac Infopedia, A Visual Encyclopedia for Students", compiled by Theodore Rowland-Entwistle and Jean Cook, 1990, pp. 110, 112