“Where did the 3 million year old Lucy and other hominids come from?”
I’ve always believed in an old universe, but I suspect there have been multiple creation events.
It doesn’t make sense that earth, as we would know it, has been around for hundreds of thousands of years. But just in the last 6,000-7500 we all of a sudden started farming, writing, and acting all civilized.
Either this is a cyclical process that humans are subjected to, or “something” happened to the hunter gatherer tribes that changed them. The different creation stories are all pretty much the same.
Suggesting that a small group of people living in a hard place to eek out a living were more special than anyone else on the planet is, on its face, silly.
Everyone is free to believe what they want. But in a greater context there are a lot of amazing stories. The wider you pan out, the more consistent the tales. And the less Special.