Men - Are They Created by The Gods
When did Eve/Adam was created, when did they first walked on earth, the year of eruption and hence the emerge of Lake Toba, etc etc Let me share with you on the following facts and let us discuss with the questions which you would find later in this topic.

1. Apes lived 25 million years ago
2. Hominids (manlike apes) lived 14 million years ago (in East Africa)
3. Homo (ape-man) – 3 million years ago
4. Advanced Australopithecus (truly manlike) – 2 million years ago (in Africa)
5. Homo erectus – 1 million years ago
6. Neanderthal – 100,000 years ago
(Note : tools used by nos. 4 to 6 above are alike i.e sharp stones)
7. Homo sapiens (cro-magnon/thinking men/cavemen/modernmen) – 35,000 years ago
(Note : produced specialized tools & weapons of wood& bones. Used skin for clothing, build shelters, cave drawings, buried the dead!)
(Puzzle : evidence also suggested that they lived in Western Asia & North Africa some 250,000 years ago before Cro-magnon. They had no ancestors apparently. They were able to speak & developed during Ice Age, which is unlikely for evolutionary advanced!)

8. Man’s habitation found in Shanidar Cave (near Ararat) suggest its age is from 13,000 to 100,000 years
9. 27,000bc to 11,000bc – regressing and dwindling population reached almost complete absence of habitation
10. 11,000bc – “thinking men” re-appeared
11. Man obtained food by hunting & just as this were thinning out, without prior know period of gradual preparation, man become farmer (in near East) of wheat & barley.
12. Grapevine originated in mountains around northern Mesopotamia & in Syria & Palestine.
13. Apples, pears, olives, figs, almonds, pistachios, walnuts could have first planted in near East (Old testament – “God planted an orchard in Eden in the East”) – east of Land of Israel i.e Land watered by 4 major rivers. Two are the tigris & the Euphrates.
14. The change in the course of human events (11,000bc) in the near east could be the time of the end of “the old stone age (the Paleolithic)” & the beginning of new cultural ear i.e “the middle stone age (Mesolithic)” or more appropriately as “the age of domestication”.
15. 7,500bc – men became farmer. “The new stone age (Neolothic)” or more appropriately the appearance of pottery. Man descent from highland (the near east) to Lower (mud-filled) valley.
16. 5,000bc – pottery were produced with superb quality and fantastic design.
17. 4,500bc – regression in pottery


A. Why did civilization came about at all?
B. Why there are still primitive tribes in Amazon & New Guinea?
C. If tribesmen are isolated, from what?
D. Why can’t they acquired knowledge (science & technology) on their own as we did?
E. Why we advanced so fast? (took us less than 50,000 years from Neanderthal to land on the moon)