For any number of reasons I keep thinking about Bill Cosby and God saying to Noah when he argues about building the Ark “How long can you tread water.” Wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes in divers places, tsunami’s, volcanoes, cyclones, tornadoes, floods, fires, diseases and famine; it isn’t looking good folks. Bad things seem to be going on at an apocalyptic pace, and just think; it may become increasingly worse while here in my native state we are being “assured” the Big One is going to hit us at any time.

It certainly doesn’t help matters that politicians have mortgaged America for the next two generations. But perhaps politicians know something the “unwashed” don’t know that makes them think they can spend like there is no tomorrow? Maybe they aren’t counting on “tomorrow” ever coming? Did Klaatu appear privately to only a privileged few? Was the Mayan Doomsday Calendar confirmed to only a privileged few? Are those in charge of the American “store” the real insiders deciding to spend lavishly knowing the world is running out of time or are mad dreams of world conquest more than what even Hitler or James Bond villains imagined?

Where are Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce when we need them? Instead of the Philosopher’s Stone what if the Large Hadron Collider should produce Stephen King’s “Langoliers?” Well, maybe the real insiders go a lot further back in time than anyone has thought possible. I got to wondering about this some years ago when I began to become curious what the real facts might have been resulting in the early chapters of Genesis together with studying many of the myths and legends of antiquity and questioning some of the theories given concerning things like Atlantis, the Giza pyramids, etc.

For example the cave paintings in France are so advanced in style as to be downright spooky! That Early Modern Humans, a phrase preferred by many paleontologists, could have had such skill so many thousands of years before being seen again in relatively recent history is beyond simply amazing. It is to me nothing less than spooky though it’s kind of a tossup between amazed awe and spooky.

K. Krist Hirst: In Africa, early modern humans appeared at least as long ago as 160,000 years BP at sites such as Bouri in Ethiopia, and perhaps as long ago as 195,000 years ago, if the dating of Omo Kibish, also in Ethiopia, is correct. The earliest sites outside of Africa with early modern humans are at Skhul and Qazfah caves in what is now Israel about 100,000 years ago. There's a large gap in the record for Asia and Europe, between 100,000 and 40,000 years ago, a period in which the Middle East seems to have been occupied by Neanderthals; but around 50,000 years ago, the EMH appear again and flow back into Europe… Where Did EMH Come From? This is problematic, because there's very little data for these periods of time. In addition, the relationship between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens is hotly debated in some circles. Behaviorally, in Africa and the Middle East, the Neanderthals and EMH were pretty much the same; they were physically quite different and different scholars debate on our exact relationship with them. The more we learn about early modern humans, the less we feel confident about the early classification systems we developed more than 130 years ago. The term Cro-Magnon doesn't refer to a particular taxonomy or even a particular group located in a particular place. The word is not precise enough, and so most paleontologists prefer to use Anatomically Modern or Early Modern Humans…

Perhaps science will provide an answer to questions surrounding EMH, but so far there is no clear-cut answer. Nor is there any decisive answer to how civilization should suddenly appear as though the gods had performed a miracle in Sumer after so many thousands of years without such a thing. Mandrake had his Ibis-stick that really fascinated me as a kid, and maybe there is a factual basis for the story of Amentep; at least I like to think so. As a kid I could imagine all kinds of wonderful things I would do if I only had that Ibis-stick. But I do think there are many mysteries surrounding ancient Egypt, and the facts behind the myths may very well be more astounding than the myths themselves.

We may expect too much of science and technology. I believe we have to leave room in our minds for the supernatural and mysteries and should never forsake the wonder of childhood that so easily accommodates such things. Years ago I read a SciFi story about children being used in a war. The enemy could read minds and hoped to get an advantage by reading the mind of one of the children that had been mortally wounded and was dying, but could not make any sense of the images in the child’s mind. At the same time we hear of children being used by conscienceless monsters to wage war I think it is unfortunate so many good people of conscience seem to lose this ability to make sense of the images of childhood. But I don’t think you can be a very good scientist unless you leave room in your mind for an Ibis-stick.