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Where should one begin? With the creation, with the creation of man himself, Charles Darwin pointed the way. It's almost certain now that man first evolved in Africa near the equator, this is a possible area, the valley of the River Omo in Ethiopia near Lake Rudolph.
The ancient stories used to put the creation of man into a Golden Age and a beautiful legendary landscape. If I were telling the story of Genesis now, I should be standing in the Garden of Eden, but this is manifestly not the Garden of Eden, and yet, I'm at the navel of the world, at the birth place of man, here in the East African Rift Valley near the equator, and if this ever was a Garden of Eden, why it withered millions of years ago? I’ve chosen this place, because it has a unique structure. In this valley, was laid down over the last four million years, layer upon layer of volcanic dust. Four million years ago, three million years ago, over two million years ago, somewhat under two million years ago, and then, the Rift Valley buckled it. So that now, it makes a map in time which we see stretching into the distance.
These cliffs are the strata on edge, in the foreground, the bottom level, four million years old, and beyond that, the next lowest well over three million years old. The remains of a creature like man appear beyond that, and the remains of the animals that lived at the same time. The animals are a surprise, because it turns out that they have changed so little. This is the topi antelope now. The ancestor of man that handed its ancestor two million years ago would at once recognise the topi today, but he would not recognise the hunter today, black or white as his own descendant.
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Genesisn .【圣】《创世纪》
buckle vt. To cause to bend, warp, or crumple. 使…弯，使皱
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