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HARUN YAHYA
with the help of computer technology. Scientists learn about outer
space in observatories equipped with all kinds of technical and elec-
trical apparatus. Yet the Mayans acquired their knowledge 2,000
years before the invention of present-day technology. This yet again
invalidates the thesis that societies always progress from a primitive
to a more advanced state. Many bygone societies had just as ad-
vanced a level of civilization as current ones, and sometimes even
more so. Many communities today have not yet achieved the levels
attained by societies in the past. In short, civilizations sometimes
move forwards and at other times backwards, and both advanced
and primitive civilizations sometimes exist at the very same time.
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