Page 484 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

FOREWORD

D id you know that 700,000 years ago, people were
sailing the oceans in very well-constructed ships?

Or have you ever heard that the people described as
"primitive cavemen" possessed an artistic ability and under-

standing just as refined as those of today's artists?
Did you know that the Neanderthals, who lived 80,000
years ago and whom evolutionists portrayed as "ape-men,"
made musical instruments, took pleasure from clothing and
accessories, and walked over painfully hot sands with

molded sandals?
In all probability you may never have heard any of these
facts. On the contrary, you may have been handed the mis-

taken impression that these people were half-ape and half-
human, unable to stand fully upright, lacking the ability to
speak words and producing only strange grunting noises.
That is because this entire falsehood has been imposed on
people like yourself for the last 150 years.

The motive behind it is to keep alive materialist philoso-
phy, which denies the existence of a Creator. According to this
view, which distorts any fact that stands in its way, the uni-

verse and matter are eternal. In other words they had no be-
ginning, and thus have no Creator. The supposedly scientific
basis for this superstitious belief is the theory of evolution.
Since materialists claim that the universe has no Creator,
they must provide their own explanation for how the life and

myriad species on Earth came into being. The theory of evolu-
tion is the scenario they employed for that purpose.
According to this theory, all the order and life in the universe

came about spontaneously and by chance. Certain inanimate
substances in the primeval world combined by accident to
give rise to the first living cell. As a result of millions of years

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