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A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE

Yet when archaeological findings and scientific facts
are examined, a very different picture emerges. The
traces and remains that have come down to the pre-
sent—the tools, needles, flute fragments, personal
adornments and decorations—show that in cul- This tool,
tural and social terms, humans have always made out of
obsidian—a
lived civilized lives in all
dark, glass-like
periods of history. rock—dates back
to 10,000 BCE. It is
Hundreds of
impossible to shape ob-
thousands of years ago, sidian just by hitting it
people lived in houses, with a stone.
engaged in agriculture, ex-
changed goods, produced textiles, ate, visited rela-
tives, took an interest in music, made paintings,
treated the sick, performed their acts of worship
and, in short, lived normal lives just as they do
Spoons show that the today. People who heeded the prophets sent by
people of the time had
God came to have faith in Him, the One and Only,
table manners. This is
further evidence that while others worshipped idols. Believers with faith
they did not lead primi- in God abided by the moral values commanded by
tive lives, as evolution-
Him, while others engaged in superstitious prac-
ists claim.
tices and deviant rites. At all times in history, just as
today, there have been people who believed in the existence of God,
as well as pagans and atheists.
Of course, throughout history, there have always
been those living under simpler, more primitive con-

One of the proofs that primitive-minded ape-men never existed
is this 40,000-year-old flute. Scientific research shows that flutes
like this one, based on the present-day seven-note Western scale,
were used tens of thousands of years ago.

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