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HARUN YAHYA

Bureaucracy formed the basis of the Sumerian administrative sys-
tem. The priest in every region would assume responsibility for the
people living there and thus ensure that food was equitably distrib-
uted, in big cities especially. Work carried out by the priests was
recorded and archived.
In the social, artistic, scientific and economic spheres, the
Sumerians, who lived some 5,000 years before our own time, are at
total variance with the evolutionist model of Man supposedly ad-
vancing from the primitive to the developed. The great civilization
built by the Sumerians was not only exceedingly advanced for its
own time, but also considerably advanced in comparison to a great
many societies of our day. This level of cultural development cannot
be explained by evolutionist claims of human beings first ridding
themselves of ape-like features, including communication in grunts,
then beginning to socialize and raise animals, and only just learning
about agriculture. It is clear that human beings have always been
human, with all their intelligence, abilities and tastes, in all periods
of history. The images of ape-men sitting by the fire in caves and
spending their days making crude stone implements, as so fre-
quently depicted by evolutionists, are entirely fictitious, and conflict
with all historical, archaeological and scientific evidence.

Sumerian Science
The Sumerians had their own number system. Instead of the
present-day base-10 system (decimal), they constructed a mathemat-
ical system based on the number 60 (sexagesimal). Their system still
occupies an important place in our own day, in the way that we have
60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute, and 360 degrees
in a circle. For these reasons, the Sumerians, whose mathematical
knowledge produced the first geometrical and algebraic formulae,

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