Bible -- Antiquities; Bible. Old Testament -- Evidences, authority, etc.
If there is one voice that can be heard in archeology, and one lesson
that can be specifically learned, it is the certainty of the fallacy of
the theory of evolution. Egypt, as elsewhere, shows us no dim, brutish
beginning, but a startling emergence of this people in a high degree of
culture. No gradual ascent up the ladder of learning, but cycles of
retrogression and advancement, followed by decay: then a new dawning of
art and science. The entire record of archeology is thus a complete
vindication of the premise and basic contention of the inspired record
of God’s Word. No greater voice may be heard in our day than this
definite, adamant cry from Egypt, which depicts cycles of culture that
begin with a crest of learning. It must not be presumed that this
condition is unique in Egypt, or peculiar to any one race or country.
The same queer discrepancy between the fallacious theories of the
philosophy of organic evolution and the facts of human history is
observed wherever archeology has been able to hold the torch of
discovery over a given area.
We have illustrated, for instance, in Plates Number 6 and 7, one of the
most interesting of the exhibits in the British Museum. This is a stone
weapon from the archaic ages of the Chaldeans. It consists of a mace
head, made of limestone. Incidentally, this was a very common type of
weapon among those people in their warlike culture. The particular one
that is illustrated is typical of its time. Note that it is a STONE AGE
WEAPON.
A note of wonder is caused in our inquiring minds by the odd and utterly
incompatible fact that it is engraved clearly in high relief, thus
testifying to the fact that in the archaic stone age of Babylon, men who
wrought in a time when the evolutionary advocates demand a dim and
brutish stage of development were already gifted in the art of
sculpture!
To complicate the case still further, they were possessed as well with a
highly developed written language! Their stone implements are in some
instances crude, as they did not spend time polishing and decorating
rude tools that were used for a base purpose. Others of their artifacts,
like this stone mace head, are not only covered with finely sculptured
figures but are also inscribed with written characters that are clear
and well executed. A “stone age” with a written culture, scholars, and
books, is an anomaly, indeed!
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