The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved | Page 8

of the artisans are beyond praise. They had knowledge even
of what are now lost arts. They had a written language 300 years before Homer wrote his
immortal Iliad. Yet many higher critics claim that writing was unknown in the days of
Moses and Homer. They declare that the Iliad, a poem in 24 books, was committed to
memory, and handed down from generation to generation, 400 years with all its fine
poetic touches. Monstrous alternative! Indeed we are even told that "Many men must
have served as authors and improvers." The mob of reciters improved the great epic of
Homer! Scarcely less brilliant is the suggestion of another higher critic that, "Homer's

Iliad was not composed by Homer, but by another man of the same name"!
The laws of Hammurabi, who is identified as the Amraphel of Scripture, Gen. 14:1, and
who was contemporary with Abraham, were in existence many hundred years before
Moses, and showed a high state of civilization, which began many hundred years before
Abraham. The literature of China goes back to 2000 B. C. The earliest civilization of
China, Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, reaching to 2500 B.C., or earlier, points to a still
earlier civilization, which likely reaches back to the origin of the human race.
It is admitted that the earliest (Sumerian) civilization began on the Euphrates, near the
garden of Eden. They had temples and priests, and, therefore, religion prevailed as well
as civilization. The first great empires clustered around the places where Adam and Noah
lived. No other civilization recorded in any quarter reaches farther back.
We quote from the New International Encyclopedia: "The Sumerian language is probably
the oldest known language in the world. From the Sumerian vocabulary, it is evident that
the people who spoke this language had reached a comparatively high civilization."
The monuments show that in early historical times, man was in a state of civilization.
There are no monuments of man's civilization prior to historical time.
Higher critics have said that Moses could not have written the Pentateuch because writing
was unknown in his day. Yet Prof. A. H. Sayce, D.D., LL.D., of Oxford University, one
of the greatest archaeologists the world ever knew, writes: "Egypt was the first to deliver
up its dead. Under an almost rainless sky, where frost is unknown, and the sand seals up
all that is entrusted to its keeping, nothing perishes except by the hand of man. The
fragile papyrus, inscribed it may be 5,000 years ago, is as fresh and legible as when its
first possessor died.
"In Egypt, as far back as the monuments carry us, we find a highly-developed art, a
highly organized government, and a highly-educated people. Books were multiplied, and
if we can trust the translation of the Proverbs of Ptah-hotep, the oldest existing book in
the world, there were competitive examinations, [civil service!] already in the age of the
sixth Egyptian Dynasty.... We have long known that the use of writing for literary
purposes is immensely old in both Egypt and Babylonia. Egypt was emphatically a land
of scribes and readers. Already in the days of the Old Empire, the Egyptian hieroglyphs
had developed into a cursive hand."
From the Tel el-Amarna tablets, discovered in Upper Egypt, we know that for 100 years
people were corresponding with each other, in the language of Babylonia in cuneiform
characters. Libraries existed then, and "Canaan in the Mosaic age, was fully as literary as
was Europe in the time of the Renaissance." Ancient Babylonian monuments testify to
the existence of an ancient literary culture. The results of the excavations by the
American Expedition, published by Prof. Hilprecht, of the U. of Pa., show that in the time
of King Sargon of Accad, art and literature flourished in Chaldea. The region of the
garden of Eden was the pivot of the civilization of the world. From this region radiated
the early civilization of Babylonia, Assyria and Egypt. And the advanced degree implies
centuries of prior civilization. The origin of man and the earliest civilization occurred in
the same region. Ur explorations (1927) show high art, 3000 B.C.
The earliest records show man was civilized. He lived in houses, cities and towns, read
and wrote, and engaged in commerce and industry. To be sure, he did not have the
inventions of modern times. If all these were necessary, then there was no civilization
prior to the 20th century. Prof. J. Arthur Thompson, of Aberdeen, an evolutionist, says:

"Modern research is leading us away from the picture of primitive man as brutish, dull,
lascivious and bellicose. There is more justification for regarding primitive man as clever,
kindly, adventurous and inventive."
It is admitted that cannibalism was not primeval. The two great revolting crimes of
barbarism, cannibalism and human sacrifices, only prevailed when man