Was mankind ever primitive?

by John Holbrook Jr.
A Biblical View, Blog #068 posted November 26, 2018, edited March 10, 2021.

CREATION

The Bible indicates the following:

• • • God created Universe, the earth, and mankind roughly 6,000 years ago.
    • Adam and Eve were perfectly formed physically, mentally, and spiritually to the point that God deemed his creatures “very good.” They began communicating with God and one another from the moment of their creations. Moreover, Adam was sufficiently proficient linguistically that God had Adam undertake a scientific study of all the earth’s fauna by naming them, which undoubtedly included categorizing them.
    • When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, however, God cursed his entire creation, which since then has been subject to disorder, decay, destruction, disease, and death (all symptoms of the devolution which scientists call entropy).
    • Despite the ravages of entropy, Adam and Eve’s immediate descendants set about developing industries: agriculture,[1] ranching,[2] musical instrument-making,[3] metallurgy,[4] ship-building,[5] and undoubtedly others.
    • Thus, today’s mankind and the global civilization which he has created represent the nadir of human history and achievement, and he can look forward to further deterioration in the future.

EVOLUTION

Adam and Eve’s disobedience has had many consequences, one of which is instilling in their descendants a spirit of rebellion. The latter refuse to accept God’s revelation of how and when he created Universe, how Adam and Eve were created, how evil entered the world, how they and we are supposed to behave toward God and one another, etc. Thus, they have concocted an alternative account of mankind’s past which omits any reference to God.

Macro-evolutionists maintain the following:

• • • Universe came into existence roughly 15 billion years ago (no one has come up with an explanation of how that happened which makes any sense).
    • The earth was formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago.
    • Mankind emerged between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago, when he made the evolutionary transition from his hominid predecessors to homo sapiens (the first modern humans).
    • Early mankind was primitive – i.e. significantly less developed physically, mentally, and spiritually than today’s mankind. For example, he didn’t develop the abilities (a) to make and use tools until 2.3 million years ago, (b) to control fire until 1.0 million years ago, and (c) to communicate linguistically until 50,000 years ago.
    • Thus, today’s mankind and the global civilization which he has created supposedly represent the pinnacle of human evolution and achievement, and he can look forward to further evolutionary advancement in the future.

You will see immediately that these two accounts of mankind’s past are polar-opposites. The evolutionary account has stood mankind on his head: mankind is not deteriorating; he is getting smarter and smarter, and maybe he will control Universe someday.

You will also see that the godless account requires a primitive period in which primitive mankind spent tens of thousands of years learning (a) to talk, (b) to cook, (c) to design, fabricate, and use tools, (d) to build homes and furniture, (e) to make and put on clothes, etc. During this period, mankind supposedly (a) lived in caves, tents, and finally huts, (b) harvested edible plants, (c) captured creeping things and small animals, (d) protected themselves by throwing stones and pointed sticks, etc.

A QUICK OBSERVATION

Pause for a moment. In addition to their failure (a) to produce any evidence that intermediate or transitional forms between species ever existed^[6] or (b) to explain how irreducibly complex forms came into existence,[7] evolutionists believe that mankind took 150,000 to 250,000 years to learn to talk to one another. What rubbish! I regard the fact that hundreds of thousands of scientists promote macro-evolution and hundreds of millions of people accept macro-evolution as prima facie evidence that mankind’s ability to think has drastically devolved in the last 150 years. At this rapid rate of decline, it will not be long before we are as dumb as posts.

CATASTROPHES & THEIR CONSEQUENCES

The bible refers to at least fifteen catastrophes that occurred during the first 3,312 years (3977-665 BC) of mankind’s existence on earth. In addition to the tearing apart of the single land mass in 2221 BC, which created the continents that we see today – a one-time event that must have been terrifying – these catastrophes were responsible for the following woes on a somewhat regular basis:

• • • Tectonic upheavals that created rocky mountains over five miles high,
    • Tectonic subsidences that created watery chasms almost seven miles deep,
    • Titanic earthquakes that shook the terrestrial crust, toppling all human structures,
    • Tornadoes and hurricane winds that tore up and flattened all plants and trees in their path,
    • Thunderbolts (electrical discharges between celestial bodies) and raining naphtha that set fire to forests and prairies,
    • Thunderbolts and meteorites that blew open large craters in the land,
    • Tsunamis that swept ashore, destroying everything in their wake, including coastlines,
    • Torrential rains that turned the soil to muck and flooded the land, uprooting plants and trees and carving deep riverbeds and canyons in the landscape, and
    • Tremendous volcanism that clothed the earth in dense clouds of ash and soot, which prevented insolation for decades.

Needless to say, the foregoing woes killed people and animals by the tens of millions with, not only deadly damage, but dementia, deprivation, desolation, despair, despondency, and disease as well.

Also, needless to say, the survivors of these catastrophes had to cope with primitive conditions. Some remained in place and defended their homeland from invaders and some left their homeland and invaded lands inhabited by others. In either case, they found themselves in mortal combat. Wherever they found themselves, they lived in caves and building ruins. They ate whatever they could scrounge from the muck and mire that surrounded them. They replanted fields with whatever seeds they could find, although the lack of insolation inhibited their germination. They reassembled herds of cattle and sheep, but these remained small due to their inability to spare the animals much food.

OUTLINE OF HISTORY

As I have described elsewhere at length, these catastrophes divided the history of the world into two main periods – (1) the Prehistoric Period, which divides readily into three eras, and (2) the Historic Period, which also divides readily into three eras. The eras divide readily into ages and minor periods.

1 – THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD (3977-665 BC)

1A – THE EARLY PREHISTORIC ERA (3977-2321 BC) It divides readily into Creation Week and two ages:

1A-0 – Creation Week in 3977 BC.

1A-1 – The Ancients’ Primordial Age (= the Bible’s Edenic Age) – It lasted less than a year (3977 BC). It was terminated by the ADAM DISTURBANCE, which introduced entropy into Universe.

1A-2 – The Ancients’ Golden Age (= the Bible’s Antediluvian Age) – It lasted just under 1646 years (3977-2321 BC). It was terminated by the NOAH DISTURBANCE (a global flood), which completely destroyed the pre-flood earth. The passengers on the Ark were its only survivors.

1B – THE MIDDLE PREHISTORIC ERA (=the Bibles Postdiluvian Era) – It lasted 857 years (2321-1464 BC). It divides readily into two ages:

1B-1 – The Ancients’ Silver Age (=the Bible’s Early Postdiluvian Age) lasted 451 years (2321-1870 BC). It was divided into three minor periods:

1B-1A – The Ancients’ 1^st Silver Period (= the Initial Settlement & Migration) – It lasted 100 years (2321-2221 BC). It was terminated by the Peleg Disturbance, which divided earth’s land mass (a single continent) into several continents.

1B-1B – The Ancients’ 2^nd Silver Period (=the Rise of the Akkadian Empire) – It lasted 151 years (2221-2070 BC). It was terminated by the Babel Disturbance,[8] which destroyed the Tower of Babel and confounded mankind’s ability to communicate in a common language.

1B-1C – The Ancients’ 3^rd Silver Period (=the Rise of Civilizations) – It lasted 200 years (2070-1870 BC). It was terminated by the ABRAHAM DISTURBANCE, which destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, eliminated the Vale of Siddim, and created the Great African Rift or its greater expansion.

1B-2 – The Ancients’ Bronze Age (=the Bible’s Late Postdiluvian World and the archaeologists’ Early Bronze Age) – It lasted 406 years (1870-1464 BC). It was divided into two minor periods:

The Ancients’ 1^st Bronze Period (=the Bibles Pre-Job Period) lasted 203 years (1870-1667 BC) and was terminated by the Job Disturbance, which killed Job’s children.

The Ancients’ 2^nd Bronze Period (=the Bibles Post-Job Period) lasted 203 years (1667-1464 BC) and was terminated by the MOSES DISTURBANCE, which caused the ten plagues of Egypt, precipitated the Hebrews’ Exodus from Egypt, thereby ending their Sojourn there, and drowned Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, thereby ending Egypt’s Middle Kingdom.

1C – THE LATE PREHISTORIC ERA (= what I call the Turbulent Era = the Bible’s Post-Exodus Age = roughly the geologists’ Pleistocene Epoch) – It lasted 799 years (1464-665 BC). It divides readily into three ages:

1C-1 – The Ancients’ Missing Age (=what I call the Reign of Venus, the archaeologists’ Middle Bronze Age, and the Early Pleistocene Age) – It lasted 456 years (1464-1008 BC). It was divided into four minor periods:

1C-1A – The Ancients 1^st Missing Period = Ice Age 1 (=the geologists’ 1^st Nebraska=Gunz Ice Advance followed by the 1^st Aftonian Ice Retreat) – It lasted roughly 51 years (1464-1413 BC). It was terminated by the Joshua Disturbance, which caused the sun to stand still in the sky during the Battle of Beth Horon.

1C-1B – The Ancients’ 2^nd Missing Period = Ice Age 2 (=the geologists’ 2^nd Nebraskan=Gunn Ice Advance followed by the 2^nd Aftonian Ice Retreat) – It lasted 152 years (1413-1261 BC). It was terminated by the Deborah Disturbance, which destroyed Sisera’s army.

1C-1C – The Ancients’ 3^rd Missing Period = Ice Age 3 (=the geologists’ Kansan=Mindel Ice Advance followed by the Yarmouth Ice Retreat) – It lasted 203 years (1261-1058 BC). It was terminated by the Samuel Disturbance, which destroyed the Philistine army.

1C-1D – The Ancients’ 4^th Missing Period = Ice Age 4 (=the geologists’ Illinoisian=Riss Ice Advance followed by the Sangamon Ice Retreat) It lasted 50 years (1058-1008 BC). It was terminated by the DAVID DISTURBANCE, which almost destroyed Jerusalem.

1C-2 – The Ancients’ Heroic Age (=what I call War in the Sky, the Mycenaean Age, the archaeologists’ Late Bronze Age, and roughly the Middle Pleistocene Age) – It lasted 254 years (1008-754 BC). It divides readlily into three minor periods:

1C-2A – The Ancients’ 1^st Heroic Period (=the geologists’ Iowan Ice Advance followed by the Post-Iowan Ice Retreat) – It lasted 51 years (1008-957 BC). It was terminated by Homer’s 1^st Cosmic Battle (=the Solomon Disturbance), which appeared to be a battle in the sky between Venus and Mars.

1C-2B – The Ancients’ 2^nd Heroic Period (=the geologists’ Post-Iowan Ice Retreat continued) – It lasted 102 years (957-855 BC). It was terminated by Homer’s 2^nd Cosmic Battle (=the Jehoram Disturbance), which appeared to be a battle in the sky between Venus and Mars. It was predicted by Elijah, and it caused the Egyptian priests during the reign of Akhnaton (=Oedipus Rex) to believe that the gods were angry over a royal case of patricide and incest.

1C-2C – The Ancients’ 3^rd Heroic Period (=the geologists’ Post-Iowan Ice Retreat continued) – It lasted 101 years (855-754 BC). It was terminated by Homer’s 3^rd Cosmic Battle (=the Azariah Disturbance or the Commotion in the Days of Uzziah), which appeared to be a battle in the sky between Venus and Mars. It was predicted by Amos, Joel, Jonah, and Nahum. It caused a titanic earthquake that affected the entire Middle East and caused the submergence of the northern coast of Africa south of Italy, taking with it Lake Triton.^[9] It also destroyed the Etruscan city of Volsinium (now Bolsena) and created the basin now occupied by Lake Bolsena with a thunderbolt, thereby weakened the surrounding Etruscan cities, including Rome. The resulting devastation created the perfect conditions for an invasion from Alba Longa, led by Romulus and Remus.

 1C-3 – The Ancients’ Iron Age (=what I call the Reign of Mars, the historians’ Early Archaic Period, and roughly the Lat Pleistocene Age) – It lasted 89 years (754-665 BC). It was divided into the following three minor periods:

1C-3A – The Ancients’ 1^st Iron Period – Ice Age 5 (=the geologists’ Post-Iowan Ice Retreat continued) – It lasted 59 years (754-695 BC). It was terminated by the Ahaz Disturbance, which was predicted by Isaiah and Micah and caused the sun’s shadow on the sundial to move forward by 10 degrees.

1C-3B – The Ancients’ 2^nd Iron Period – Ice Age 6 (=the geologists’ Tazewell Ice Advance followed by the Post-Tazewell Ice Retreat) – It lasted 15 years (695-680 BC). It was terminated by the 1^st Hezekiah Disturbance, which was predicted by Isaiah and Micah and caused the sun’s shadow on the sundial to move backward by 10 degrees.

1C-3C – The Ancients’ 3^rd Iron Period – Ice Age 7 (=the geologists’ Carey Ice Advance followed by the Post-Carey Ice Retreat) – It lasted 15 years (680-665 BC). It was terminated by the 2^nd HEZEKIAH DISTURBANCE, which was predicted by Isaiah and Micah, destroyed Sennacherib’s army, was recorded by Habakkuk, and terminated the Ancients’ Iron Age, the Ancients’ Turbulent Era, and the entire Prehistoric Period.

2 – THE HISTORIC PERIOD (665 BC-PRESENT)

2A – THE EARLY HISTORIC ERA lasted 663 years (665-2 BC). I have divided it into five non-temporal parts:

2A-1 – The Occident in the Early Historic Era.

2A-2 – The Middle East in the Early Historic Era. I have divided it into four phases:

2A-2A – The Neo-Babylonian Supremacy – It lasted 178 years (665-487 BC).

2A-2B – The Medo-Persian Supremacy – It lasted 157 years (487-330 BC).

2A-2C – The Macedonian Supremacy – It lasted 184 years (330-146 BC).

2A-2D – The Roman Supremacy BC – It lasted 144 years (146-2 BC).

2A-3 – The Orient in the Early Historic Era.

2A-4 – The Scared in the Early Historic Era. I have divided it into three phases:

2A-4A – The Final Years of the Kingdom of Judah – It lasted 110 years (665-555 BC).

2A-4B – The Exile in Babylon – It lasted 70 years (555-485 BC).

2A-4C – Daniel’s 69 Weeks of Years – It lasted 483 years (485-2 BC).

2A-5 – Geology in the Early Historic Era. It divides readily into two phases:

2A-5A – The Late Pleistocene Age’s Ice Age 8 (= the geologists’ Manketo Ice Advance followed by the Post-Manketo (Boreal) Ice Retreat) – It lasted roughly 40 years (665-c.625 BC).

2A-5B – The Holocene Epoch’s Atlantic Age  – It continued for 623 years (c.625-2 BC).

2B – THE MIDDLE HISTORIC ERA lasted over 2,000 years (2 BC-1453 AD). I have divided it into five non-temporal parts.

2B-1 – The Occident in the Middle Historic Era. I have divided it into two phases:

2B-1A – The Roman Age AD – It lasted 477 years (2BC-476 AD).

2B-1B – The Byzantine Age – It lasted 977 years (476-1453 AD).

2B-2 – The Middle East in the Middle Historic Era.

2B-3 – The Orient in the Middle Historic Era.

2B-4 – The Sacred in the Middle Historic Era. I have divided it into three phases:

2B-4A – The Life of Messiah – It lasted 33.5 years (2BC-33 AD).

2B-4B – The Childhood of Messiah’s Bride – It lasted 37 years (33-70 AD).

2B-4C – The Betrothal of Messiah’s Bride – It extended for 1,383 years (70-1453 AD).

2B-5 – Geology in the Middle Historic Era. It consists of the Holocene Epoch’s Atlantic Age continued (2 BC-1453 AD).

2C – THE LATE HISTORIC ERAhas lasted over 568 years (1453 AD-Present). I have divided it into five non-temporal parts.

2C-1 – The Occident in the Late Historic Era. I have divided it into three phases:

2C-1A – The Exploratory Age – It lasted roughly 297 years (1453-c.1750 AD).

2C-1B – The Revolutionary Age – It lasted roughly 168 years (c.1750-1918 BC).

2C-1C – The Globalist Age – It has extended for over 103 years (1918-Present).

2C-2 – The Middle East in the Late Historic Era.

2C-3 – The Orient in the Late Historic Era.

2C-4 – The Sacred in the Late Historic Era. It consists of one phase: the Betrothal of Messiah’s Bride continued – It has continued for over 568 years (1453 AD-Unknown date).

2C-5 – Geology in the Late Historic Era. It consists of the Holocene Epoch’s Atlantic Age continued – It has continued for over 568 years (1453 AD-Present).

CONCLUSION

Now the important point that I want to make here is that the aftermath of the catastrophes or disturbances that I have described above all look the same. When an archaeologist today examines a cave in which a group of people lived for decades thousands of years ago, he sees the residue of life under primitive conditions. He finds primitive tools and primitive drawings on the wall – all of which the survivors of a catastrophe should be expected to produce. Moreover, the archaeologist would have a difficult time determining if the occupants were survivors of the Noah Disturbance in 2321 BC, the Abraham Disturbance in 1870 BC, one of the ice age disturbances between the Moses Disturbance in 1464 BC and the 2^nd Hezekiah Disturbance in 665 BC, or even a violent decade due to a tribal war. Indeed, a single cave might even have housed the survivors of several disruptions, separated by centuries. The archaeologist cannot always tell, because he is looking at the home of normal people who were coping with abnormal conditions, not the home of sub-normal people who were coping with normal conditions. Mankind was never primitive!

© 2018 John Holbrook Jr.
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[1] Genesis 4:2,3.

[2] Genesis 4:2,4.

[3] Genesis 4:21.

[4] Genesis 4:22.

[5] Genesis 6:14

[6] By this, I mean factual evidence. That evolution lacks evidence has been admitted by many scientists. For example: Darwin himself wrote, “Why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely-graduated organic chain; and this is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory” (C. Darwin, Origin of Species, 6th ed., London, 1872, p. 413 – reprinted by John Murray, 1902). The celebrated paleontologist and Harvard professor Stephen J. Gould revealed, “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology” (S.J. Gould, “Evolution’s Erratic Pace,” Natural History, 86(5):14, 1977).  National Geographic admitted, “Illuminating but spotty, the fossil record is like a film of evolution from which 999 out of 1,000 frames have been lost” (“Was Darwin Wrong? No!,” National Geographic, Nov. 2004, Page 25). Richard Dawkins also admitted, “Evolution has been observed. It’s just that it hasn’t been observed while it’s happening” (Transcript @ pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript349_full.html#dawkins, Dec, 3, 2004) – an admission that was regarded by many as “letting the cat out of the bag.”

[7] Irreducible complexity is a term used to describe a characteristic of certain complex systems whereby they need all their individual component parts in place in order to function. In other words, it is impossible to reduce the complexity of (or to simplify) an irreducibly complex system by removing any of its component parts and still maintain its functionality. The idea was well known to Darwin, who stated in The Origin of Species, “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.” It has.

[8] Originally, I assigned the Babel Disturbance to 2070 BC. I forget all my reasons for doing so, but one was certainly the fact that Kenkenes (E03-01) had broken the Akkadian Dynasty’s hold on Egypt, which would have probably occurred early in his reign. In recent years, I have leaned toward 2020 BC, because there was a severe break at the end of Sharguni (AK-10)’s reign, which would have left the Akkadian Dynasty in a weakened state and thereby created an opportunity for Kenkenes to throw off the Mesopotamian yoke. Changing all my documents, however, is beyond my abilities at this point in my life

[9] Velikovsky connects the disappearance of Lake Triton with the appearance of the comet Venus in the mid-fifteenth century BC (Worlds in Collision, pp. 168-169). I disagree. Lake Triton was extant when the Argonauts undertook their great tour of the ancient world in the mid-ninth century BC. Moreover, the ancients connected Lake Triton with the birth of Venus, not her death. I surmise that Lake Triton was associated with Venus because an interplanetary thunderbolt from Venus created its basin; I believe Venus emerged from Jupiter during one of the cataclysms in the Postdiluvian Era and entered a cometary orbit around the sun which took it close to the earth every 50-52 years until 754 BC, when it moved to its current, planetary orbit. The closest and most damaging near-contact occurred in 1464 BC, which would have been a logical occasion for the birth of Lake Triton.

 

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