The Southern Continent has evolved over time.
The pace of technological progress during this period was also quite similar to that of the Earth where Norton lived in his previous life.
But this became a point of suspicion in Norton's mind.
"The world is changing a little too much like Earth!"
Norton, draped in a pure white cloak and with his pale body bare, stood on the balcony of the luxurious palace that Miles XIII had prepared for him.
The rain poured down, the atmosphere was gloomy, and the clouds in the sky were so dark that they added a gray-blue filter to the whole world.
Standing on high ground, one can see that the ground below is full of water. Even so, in this torrential rain and strong winds, soldiers still stand in the downpour, protecting the safety of the palace.
Norton's mood was as volatile as the weather.
"When I first recovered, I felt that the development of this world was too strange. In a world created by gods, the human race was actually created into many different races, and even the development trajectory was very similar to Earth. It seemed to be developing according to my memories. It was really... too strange!"
Leaving aside the fact that various physical and mathematical logics also apply to this magical world, the sheer diversity of its people simply doesn't conform to the logic of this divinely created world.
Since all things were created by God, there could be no such thing as species evolution; they are all predetermined!
If the people of the Northern Continent were not black ship slaves, but rather white people, it would fit the logic of divine creation. However, the current races are strangely similar, even mirroring the world's trajectory... With so many coincidences combined, it can no longer be considered a coincidence.
The world is diverse in its inhabitants, and the extraordinary beings of the past, possessing superhuman powers, have vanished without a trace. Now, there is even a figure like Levin Mark, who created a microscope in another world... In this divinely created realm where even the theory of biological evolution does not exist, the concept of cells has miraculously appeared!
Is this guy fucking playing a joke on me?
Norton's pale hands flipped through the pages of a book on modern archaeology from the Southern Continent.
The page in his hand was frozen on the topic of ancient life and the theory of degeneration.
That's right, it's the theory of degradation.
Two hundred years ago, along with the trends of intellectual liberation and the Renaissance, various technologies and even culture made rapid progress, and various basic industries began to emerge, such as glassmaking.
A man named Levin Mark, while making glass in a glass factory, had a brilliant idea: he tried to stack two pieces of glass together and created an object that could observe tiny things.
This is the origin of the Kaimen Empire microscope, and also the origin of modern cell theory.
Because of the recent liberation of thought, microstructures did not receive much attention at the time. People thought they were like the tiny fingerprints on a finger, existing for a reason.
Some members of the Holy Lord Church, on the contrary, believed that these tiny creatures were alive. They used the argument that "only God has the power to create such microorganisms and keep them alive" as strong evidence of God's existence and spread it widely, which led to the spread of the cell theory.
However, at that time, the whole nation was opposing creationism and hostile to the Church. Therefore, based on this viewpoint, a scholar named Dulan conducted a decade-long study on cells and even the microscopic world, and finally deduced a conclusion in reverse.
He believed that all living things were not created by God, but were composed of single-celled and multicellular organisms, which are the most basic life forms.
In his academic viewpoint, Dulan introduced the fundamental concepts of single-celled organisms, multicellular organisms, and even viruses. He used examples of single-celled organisms in water, such as the paramecium and human oral epithelial cells, to analyze and explain the composition of organisms and the differences between single-celled and multicellular organisms.
He went even further and boldly speculated that all life originated from single-celled organisms, which evolved into their current form through continuous evolution.
This theory caused a huge uproar at the time. Because its logic was so reasonable, a group of fanatical anti-religious elements regarded it as the Bible of the New Age. They used this theory to attack the Church's ignorant faith, deny the correctness of creationism, and severely undermine the Church's authority, causing the Church's reputation to plummet and its supporters to continue to decrease.
This result greatly pleased the emperors of various countries.
In 1387, Emperor Miles VII of the Aodelan Empire sought to take the opportunity to implement religious reforms in order to weaken the influence of the domestic Church and the power of the then -Holy Lord Church. Therefore, following the views of the scholar ' Dulan ', he vigorously promoted the rise of archaeology.
They wanted to use traces of ancient biological evolution to truly prove the correctness of the Dulan Cell Theory, thereby completely overturning the Church's misleading doctrines and freeing countries from the Church's control.
As a result, countless scholars went to various parts of the Southern Continent to search for ancient fossils in order to prove the theories of the Dulan scholars.
But you don't know until you look, and what you find is shocking.
Before searching for fossils, scholars generally believed in the Dulan theory. However, as fossils were unearthed in various places, scholars used geology and burial depth to infer the age of fossils, and finally came to a very terrifying conclusion.
The older the fossils of these creatures, the less simple their structures become.
The oldest fossils are enormous and terrifying, far beyond what we see in modern creatures. In contrast, the fossils of modern organisms are smaller and more fragile, showing no signs of evolution but rather degenerate.
The oldest human fossils currently being searched, dating back 100,000 years, are indistinguishable from modern human skeletons.
Instead, digging three feet into the ground, all the fossils they found dated back to 300,000 years ago, as if all those enormous and terrifying creatures had suddenly appeared 300,000 years ago.
Digging deeper still yielded no fossils of even more ancient organisms.
This performance clearly does not conform to the results of the cell evolution theory as stated by the Dulan scholars; instead, it has inadvertently become strong evidence for creationism.
This led to the hasty end of the archaeological expedition that year, with Yalian VII, looking dejected, citing the inadequacy of current technology to uncover deeper fossil traces as the reason for halting the trend.
Even archaeologists haven't been able to find fossils of ancient single-celled organisms or the simplest multicellular organisms. On the contrary, the older the organism, the more powerful it is. Isn't this a mockery of Norton?
"To say that something can't be copied verbatim is utterly illogical; it's truly incompetent!"
Norton looked at the book " Theory of Degeneration " in his hands, and a few guesses began to form in his mind.
Such bizarre, incoherent, and illogical problems appearing in this divinely created world have led Norton to consider two possible explanations.
"Or perhaps it's all God's doing, that He is spying on my memories and trying to use them to construct a new change."
Or perhaps this Garden of Eden, like the New-Type Vampire or Werewolf, is being subtly influenced by my memories... If it's the latter, wouldn't that mean I haven't stopped evolving, that I've actually been subtly evolving all along...?
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(Don't wait any longer, rest first, and watch it tomorrow.)