Adam wasn’t the progenitor of our race, he was the progenitor of our culture. - Daniel Quinn

Modern humans have been around for two hundred thousand years, but according to to our beliefs, God had not a word to say to any of them until we came along.

If I were someone else, I’d try to console you with a fairy tale like the one they tell about Santa Claus every Christmas. I’d tell you that Mommy’s going to be taken up to heaven to live with God and the angels, and from there I’ll look down and watch over you. The truth is better than this—partly because it is the truth.

But, alas, a law is catching up to them. They don’t know such a law even exists, but this ignorance affords them no protection from its effects.