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          Of this discovery, an article in The Observer written by Helena Smith bore a headline announcing: "Revealed:

          World's Oldest Computer." The following extract is taken from her article:
              … after the discovery of the calcium-encrusted bronze mechanism on the ocean floor, hidden inscriptions show that it

              is the world's oldest computer, used to map the motions of the sun, moon and planets. 'We're very close to unlocking
              the secrets,' says Xenophon Moussas, an astrophysicist with a Anglo-Greek team researching the device. 'It's like a
              puzzle concerning astronomical and mathematical knowledge.'... Michael Wright, a former curator at London's
              Science Museum … said the apparatus was the best proof yet of how technologically advanced the ancients were. 'The

              skill with which it was made shows a level of instrument-making not surpassed until the Renaissance.'

              … many experts say it could change how the history of science is written. 'In many ways, it was the first analogue
              computer,' said Professor Theodosios Tassios of the National Technical University of Athens. 'It will change the way
              we look at the ancients' technological achievements.'   5


          These statements by experts are very significant, because it took approximately 20 centuries before human
          beings could build a computer similar to the Antikythera mechanism. 2,000 years ago, Greeks had the knowl-
          edge to build an analog computer. All this shows us that people who lived so long ago had a higher level of
          civilization than many later societies—a fact that cannot be explained by evolution.

          Certainly, there were backward civilizations in various places in the world while the Greeks were enjoying
          their own advanced civilization. The fact that some societies existed in an advanced civilization while some
          others were less-developed, does not indicate that mankind is a species that evolved from apes or that one so-

          ciety developed from another, as the Darwinists claim. This is an uninformed interpretation that goes against
          all science and logic.





             1. http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/triton2.htm
             2. Ibid.
             3. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online; www.britannica.com/eb/article-9018261/Vannevar-Bush
             4. Donald E. Chittick, The Puzzle of Ancient Man: Advanced Technology in Past Civilizations?,
             Creation Compass, 1998, pp. 34-35
             5. "Revealed: world's oldest computer," Helena Smith, The Observer, August 20, 2006; http://ob-
             server.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1854232,00.html

































                                                                                 Pictured here is the geared wheel recovered
                                                                                 from the Aegean Sea and determined to be part
                                                                                 of an ancient computer.













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