“Anthropologists have long known that every culture has a traditional story about how people were created. There are Babylonian, Hindu, Cherokee, Yoruba, Maori, Norse, Mayan, and dozens of other myths. Our Western biblical origin stories are rooted in the pastoral societies of the Middle East and have been retold for centuries. Literal interpretation of the biblical account holds that humans remained basically unchanged after they were created. This interpretation was tested with the discovery of the Herto man (155,000 year old fossilized human discovered near a tropical African lake). Here was someone whose anatomy linked him to earlier fossils that were not human.”

- Tim D. White, Human Evolution: The Evidence

     The fossilized Herto man is just another piece of evidence in the evolution timeline that shows that Earth has been home to life for billions of years, not just 5,000 years. I think it is important what Tim White said about every culture having a traditional story about how people were created. The story of Creation just happens to be the most standardized story in Western Culture. People just take Christianity as the truth, just because it's to common. When really, if you just step back and take a Anthropological look at religion as a whole, you will see that Christiantiy is just another religion is a sea of religions. You will see that these stories of the supernatural and where our beginnings are rooted are abundant in cultures, and greatly differ and go far back into time. Where as all these cultural religions just tell stories and calls them truth, science actually seeks the real truth and nothing more. I can't comprehend how somebody can dare say "I don't believe in evolution", I mean come on, what do you think science is out to get you, out to fool everyone? Science seeks only the truth, if something fails in their scientific method, it is discarded, unlike religion.. where if something fails to modern thought, the story ironically "evolves" to fit modern day thinking.

Such is the Bible.

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