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Evolutionist Freeman Dyson said, “The universe in some sense must have known we werecoming” (quoted by Judith Hooper, “Perfect Timing,” New Age Journal, Dec. 1985, p. 18).All men will be of the same race.According to the Bible, all men have the same blood (Acts 17:26); they come from the sameoriginal parents, Adam and Eve.This is exactly what we find to be true. The differences between men are superficial, pertainingto such things as skin color and eye shape.There will be evidence that human civilization began in the Mesopotamian region.According to the Bible, after Noah’s Flood in about 2350 B.C. human civilization flourished inthe Mesopotamian region between the Tigris and Euphrates.This is exactly what archaeologists have discovered. Great civilizations arose suddenly in thisvery region.“Historians refer to ancient Mesopotamia as ‘the birthplace of civilization.’ The first civilizationdeveloped in the southern region of Mesopotamia, called Sumer. ... By about 2800 B.C., mostSumerians lived in a city-state” (Shilpa Mehta-Jones, Life in Ancient Mesopotamia, p. 4).In fact, the very cities mentioned in Genesis 10 have been unearthed by archaeologists. Theseinclude Babylon, Nineveh, Erech, Ur, and Calah.Man’s history will stretch back only several thousand years and will appear as a full-blownintelligent culture.The Bible says that Adam’s children built complex societies and were inventive from the verybeginning, excelling in such things as metal working, designing musical instruments, andagriculture (Genesis 4:16-22). This early society, dating to about 4000 B.C., was destroyed in theFlood, but it was duplicated immediately thereafter by Noah’s offspring beginning in about 2,500B.C. The kingdom of Babylon was highly sophisticated, with the use of bricks and mortar for theconstruction of high towers, etc. (Genesis 10:8-12; 11:1-4).This is confirmed by the discoveries of modern archaeology. Every ancient civilization seems tohave popped into existence suddenly four to five thousand years ago.The Egyptians had amazing mathematical and engineering skills. The Great Pyramid, built inabout 2,500 B.C., contains over two million blocks of stone, each weighing about 2 1/2 tons. Itssides are 756 feet long and are set to the points of a compass to an accuracy of a small fraction ofone degree (Don Stewart, The Creation, p. 150).321