2. Homo sapiens -400,000 to 200,000 years BCE Homo sapiens neandertalensis -200,000 to 30,000 years BCE Homo sapiens sapiens -130,000 years BCE to present

3. The oldest fossil evidence for anatomically modern humans is about 130,000 years old in Africa, and there is evidence for modern humans in the Near East sometime before 90,000 years ago.

4. Day 3 - vegetation Day 5 – fish, birds Day 6 – animals Ice Ages man

5. The Ice Age in Europe

6. 10,000 BC 9000 8000 7000 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 Flood ? Abraham Joseph David Moses BRONZE AGESTONE AGEIRON AGE End last Ice Age Domestication plants & animals Metal tools First towns Writing & wheel invented Stonehenge ! Adam tilled the soil & kept animals. His descendants discovered the use of metal. He must have lived in the Stone Age Jesus

7. Pause 4 thought Some Christians think belief in evolution undermines the uniqueness of humankind and the reality of evil and the Fall. Not so. The Genesis account portrays Adam and Eve as Neolithic farmers. It is perfectly feasible that God bestowed his image on representative Homo sapiens already living in the Near East to generate what John Stott has called Homo divinus, those who first enjoyed personal fellowship with God, but who then fell most terribly from their close walk with God (Gen. 3:8). All those who disobey God and trust in their own wisdom in place of God’s law reiterate the historical Fall in their own being (Ezek. 28: 11-19). Those many Christians today who are active in the biological sciences are amazed as we uncover more and more of God’s creative actions in our daily research. We do not look for God in the ‘gaps’ in our scientific knowledge, but instead worship God for the whole of his created order, including those remarkable evolutionary processes that God has used for his creative purposes. © Dr Denis Alexander 2005 http://www.bethinking.org