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As Eve was allotted as Adam's mate very suddenly in the Bible, there should have been a sudden spate of drawings of female beings on cave walls or Stone Age bones following the artificial creation of woman I have described. In fact there is plenty of confirmation of such a surmisal. The so-called ‘mother goddesses’ make their first appearance in the early Stone Age. Female Stone Age figures are found at La Gravette (France), Cukurca (southern Turkey), Laussel (France), Lespugne (France), Kostyenki (Ukraine), Willendorf (Austria), Petersfels (Germany) and elsewhere. All these female figures are flatteringly described as 'Venuses'. In nearly all of them the artists have taken pains to emphasise the sexual organs and symptoms of pregnancy. Archaeology dates these early Stone Age figures to the Gravettian. We do not know what purpose they could have served nor why they appear for the first time in the Early Stone Age. It is conceivable that homo sapiens originated in different parts of the world in two different ways: by the planned mutation of the genetic code of hominids and by the artificial production of a female being and her cultivation in a retort. Nevertheless, the 'new' men later mated with animals again. These lapses must be attributed to the old Adam, because he alone remembered coupling with apelike animals. After the artificial mutation it should have been natural for the new human beings to mate with each other. Henceforth every reversion to the former habit of mating with animals that led to reproduction was a step backwards. Can this backsliding have been the Fall of Man? And was it at the same time original sin against the A few thousand years later the 'gods' corrected this Fall. (I shall have more to say about this.) They destroyed the hybrid animal-men, separated a well-preserved group of new men and implanted new genetic material in them by a second artificial mutation. Palaeoanthropologists are puzzled by the sudden, breathtakingly fast separation of the neanthropids, the group of homo sapiens to which we belong, from the family of prehommids, who were still ape- like in form. So far the process has been provisionally explained by a spontaneous mutation. If we adopt the preanthropological datings marking the essential changes in our first ancestors for our theory of a planned artificial mutation by unknown intelligences, then the first artificial mutation with the genetic code used by the 'gods' must have taken place between 40,000 and 20,000 B.C. And the second artificial mutation would have occurred in more recent times, between 7,000 and 3,500 B.C. Assuming these datings are correct, the 'gods' first visit would probably have taken place in the age which yielded the first drawings and figurines of women. Anthropological scholars shy away from datings that go so far back. But surely the time dilation effect, which is unreservedly accepted by science, must have been valid in all ages? Time dilation is a known quantity for all planned interstellar space travel projects, both now and in the future. The fact that it was governed by a law was first 'discovered' in our own day, but just because it is governed by a law it obviously held good at all times, and would have applied to the 'gods' who could have visited the earth in their spaceships travelling just below the speed of light. building up of the new kind of cells?