And if god did not create mankind then what is the reason for the state of humanity as described by the author..???
A deep thought! As a student of the Bible fore a few decades, I would observe that the changes in humanity and societies have been prophesied well in advance of the occurrences. AND ... the very nature of DNA, the most sophisticated information carrier that doubles as manufacture driver shouts ‘Designer’. AND ... in her book, Warped Passages, Lisa Randall illustrates the growth of crystals that assemble due to spacetime variables we can as yet not sense or measure.