Qualified men of science have established the error of this philosophy. The content of the first unit in any Humanist oriented history will reveal the philosophy and value systems for the rest of the textbook. The third concept controlling history content is teleology which says that there is a cause and effect relationship between all events or situations. The changes have been a logical result of law-principles at work throughout every part of the universe where God is in control of His Creation. Students are intrigued by the brilliant sciences, trade, religion and architecture that miraculously appear in Sumer, ancient Egypt and the Indus River Valley.
More bold evolutionists teach parallel cultural evolution in several river valleys.
The ancient and brilliant civilizations of Ethiopia and North Africa are usually ignored as are the migrations of their cultures southward. Western civilizations did not originate with Greece and Rome. Greek political scientists quite probably based their ideas for democracy and government organization upon the ancient Sumerian bicameral legislature and Persian division of powers. Upon all of the previous elements used in government, the Romans fashioned their empire that enclosed the Levant and Mediterranean shores. With increasing clearness, authors of recent history textbooks have been giving Judaism, Jesus Christ and the Church a more Biblical matrix.