The Fall of Man, the Ascent of Man, and the Eternal Return

If the archeological evidence is evidence of anything, ages and eons passed over the earth long before the advent of Adam, obliterating all before them, and left countless creatures from trilobites to triceratops extinct, falling prey to pain and plague, famine, death, and the eternal war of nature red in tooth and nail.

The Horsemen of the Apocalypse are not only older than Genesis, but pull the chariot of evolution, and therefore deserve the same reverence we should pay our ancestors, who, apparently, are apes.

But if evil entered the world with Adam, as we are assured by the Wisdom of Solomon it did, how can such evils have been sovereign here before him?

Here is the text of which I speak.

1 Wisdom of Solomon

13 For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.

14 For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth:

15 For righteousness is immortal:

16 But ungodly men with their works and words called it to them: for when they thought to have it their friend, they consumed to nought, and made a covenant with it, because they are worthy to take part with it.

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