There are nearly as many in the non-religious, secular, agnostic, or atheist category as there are Muslims, making them the third largest group behind Christians and Muslims. No other writings from these ancient civilizations can make that claim.ДЄt the same time, in todayвЂ™s scientifically enlightened age many dismiss Genesis as nothing more than mythology. Today, the Books of Moses serve as the foundation for the worldвЂ™s two largest religions, making up half the worldвЂ™s population, three thousand years later. What's more, the books have continuously been an ever-present influence on the western world in every age since. They also had a strong impact on the Romans, who after over a century of Christian persecution legalized Christianity, then a few decades later made it the only legal religion. The Greeks were fascinated by these books, which is why some of the oldest manuscripts of the Torah that still exist today are written in Greek. The most obvious quality that differentiates them from the others is that in this story there is only one God. Other than the obvious correlation between a handful of stories in early Genesis with Sumerian mythology, the Books of Moses are very much unique. If the creation of Adam in Genesis happened in an already populated world, given the time frame and location specified, then the humans who eventually became the Sumerians would have been the people that populated the landscape. They all speak of multiple immortal gods, human in form, both male and female, who were fallible, moody, and often at odds with each other, and they all speak of the intermingling between these immortal beings and mortal humans, producing demigods and titans. Greek and Roman mythology also contains echoed themes that suggest the roots of their beliefs may have come from the well-known Sumerian beliefs as well. The Akkadians were definitely inspired by this first civilization, considering they basically adopted much of the Sumerian lifestyle, including their mythology. ThereвЂ™s no doubt Sumerian mythology had an impact on subsequent civilizations. Because of this, it has become a more and more common assumption that some of the stories found in early Genesis were actually inspired by these ancient tales. Numerous tablets from throughout the latter part of the 3rd millennium BC containing these stories have been found all around Mesopotamia, suggesting they were very well known in the region during that time. Some of these tablets contain stories that share many very similar components to stories found in early Genesis, including the story of Adam and Eve, the biblical flood, and the confusing of a once universal language. The Sumerian and Akkadian tablets where these Sumerian stories are found predate the oldest books of the bible by over a thousand years by our best scholarly estimations. They claim they were taught by immortal human-like gods. The funny thing is, these stories didn't give credit to their ancestors. Over the centuries that followed, writing became more advanced and they began to record stories passed down through generations that explained how their people came up with all of these ideas that would forever change the human race. Another first accredited to the Sumerians. Not long after large-scale agriculture first began, a crude form of writing was developed out of the need to keep records of labor and materials. They also created the first government, the first laws, arithmetic, astronomy/astrology, the wheel, sailboats, frying pans, razors, harps, kilns for firing bricks and pottery, bronze hand tools, and plows, to name just a few. Throughout the rise of civilization the Sumerians became talented builders. They built the first cities that ever existed, with populations in the tens of thousands made possible through their development of large-scale year-round agriculture. Civilization first began in Mesopotamia over five thousand years ago, and the Sumerians are credited as the inventors.

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