Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World

[leo-rcc]

Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.


According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.

"I do not understand," reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. "A booming voice is saying, 'Let there be light,' but there is already light. It is saying, 'Let the earth bring forth grass,' but I am already standing on grass."

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[fr0d0]

James Ussher, what a bloke. Nightfall before October 23, 4004 B.C.

[Zhalentine]

Thats a funny read. Nice find!

[Purple Rabbit]

"These two people made in his image do not know how to communicate, lack skills in both mathematics and farming, and have the intellectual capacity of an infant," one Sumerian philosopher wrote. "They must be the creation of a complete idiot."

Seems naive tribal fantasy went sour right from the start.

[Amphora]

Nice. That was a funny read. I liked the part: "They must be the creation of a complete idiot." Very well put.

[theVOID]

What was that Sam Harris quote? Something like : Surprisingly, the time when Young Earth Creationists believe that god created the earth was about 1000 years after the sumerians invented glue.