Back to the Know! home page.Once humans were nomadic types on the earth. Much like any other animal, they were ruled by the laws of nature. When the nomadic humans, whom modern archaeologists refer to as hunter-gatherers, discovered they could grow the wild foods that they sought out, the nature of man on earth changed. He changed from a nomad to a stationary being, resulting in a large family, then a village, then a city. But it wasn't the hunter that discovered agriculture; it was the gatherer. A woman discovered that an apron would help carry her gathered food back to the camp. This genius woman discovered agriculture and founded civilization. She changed man's nature completely. Man was now set to subdue the earth, unnecessary until he became a farmer. This is the story science tells us.
The book of Genesis tells a similar story, but boiled down into allegory, a woman changed the nature of man with God. God curses the agriculturalist and the resulting cities for their evil ways. The farmer was the first murderer. Is this more allegory? Did the Cro Magnon farmer kill the natural human Neanderthal? We lived side by side with the Neanderthal since time immemorial, yet Neanderthal never made past the agricultural revolution of the Neolithic.
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Dutch Harvey (KnowAtNeopage@yahoo.com)
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