Babylonia (Accad) in the beginning of the fourth thousand B.C.
in possession of the fully developed Shumiro-Accadian culture
adopted by them--a culture, moreover, which appears to have
sprouted like a cutting from Shumir, then the latter must be far,
far older still, and have existed in its _completed_ form in the
fifth thousand B.C., an age to which I unhesitatingly ascribe the
South Babylonian incantations." ... Who does not see that such
facts as these compel us to remodel our whole idea of the past?

A culture which was _complete_ one thousand years before Adam must
have needed many thousands of years to develop. It would be a modest
guess that Accadian culture implied a growth of at least ten thousand
years.

Of course, it may be said that the above biblical error is only an
error of time, and has no bearing on the alleged evolution of the
Bible. Well, an error of a million, or of ten thousand, years is
a serious thing in a divine revelation; but, as we shall see, it
_has_ a bearing on evolution. Because it appears that in that
ancient Accadian civilisation lie the seeds of many Bible laws
and legends.

Here I quote from _Our Sun God_, by Mr. J. D. Parsons:

To commence with, it is well known to those acquainted with
the remains of the Assyrian and Babylonian civilisations that
the stories of the creation, the temptation, the fall, the deluge,
and the confusion of tongues were the common property of the
Babylonians centuries before the date of the alleged Exodus
under Moses... Even the word Sabbath is Babylonian. And the