Ancient Man from a Biblical Perspective
Author
Shannon Skaer
Did ancient man have the IQ of a toddler?
Have you ever noticed that our expectations for ancient man are similar to those for a toddler?
Hear me out:
1. They aren’t allowed to use power tools.
2. They can’t be motivated by practicality.
3. They must believe in Santa Claus and bogeymen under the bed.
Yes, I know, it sounds weird, but let’s look at Gobekli Tepe. Discovered in 1994, this site in modern-day Turkey was probably built not long after Babel. It’s a large site, and we’ve uncovered 5-10%, which is quite enough for us to know everything we need to know about these people – given how much we’ve already assumed.
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In the fading days of the Ice Age, a monster is unleashed. The Last Climb is a pulse-pounding, bite-sized tale of survival based on one of history’s greatest floods.
When young Chief Tupak feels the ground shake beneath his feet, he knows something is terribly wrong. The great river is not just rising—it’s coming, a wall of water taller than the trees, faster than an arrow in flight. As an unstoppable deluge crashes toward his village, Tupak must make an impossible choice: follow the advice of the past or forge a new path before the water swallows them all.
Inspired by real catastrophic geology, The Last Climb is a gripping survival story that echoes the legacy of the global flood. With the article What Was the Missoula Flood by Michael Oard, this snapshot of the apocalyptic disaster that shaped the landscape of the Pacific Northwest will be hard to forget.
work in progress:
A one-world government rises from the wilderness. This is the story of the Tower of Babel.
100 years after Noah’s flood, Tasha fights for survival, desperate to be the hero who saves her friends. But what if she’s the villain?
About
Meet the author
One of my favorite books as a kid was The World’s Last Mysteries by Reader’s Digest. It chronicled “ancient civilizations, archaeological discoveries, unexplained catastrophes, and other mysteries from man’s past.” Or, in other words, exactly the kind of thing I geek out over. As an author of historical and science fiction, I enjoy exploring forgotten peoples and vanished places from a Christian worldview informed by creation science.
Rules: no paranormal. No aliens, Bigfoot, or Nephilim. Yes to dinosaurs, DNA analysis and improbable possibilities.
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