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Cave Art in Borneo Leads to Belief : GREAT LEAP FORWARD Was Divine

Deep within a cave, deep within the jungle of Borneo, Indonesia, scientists have dated a cave painting; it is 40,000 years old.  The painting is figurative art; it is the oldest discovered figurative art in the world. Its discovery adds to the mystery of THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD. Its discovery adds weight to the belief that the mystery of the Great Leap Forward can only be solved by a scientific acknowledgement of a Creator. “On the wall of a cave deep in the jungles of Borneo, there is an image of a thick-bodied, spindly-legged animal, drawn in reddish ocher. It may be a crude image. But it also is more than 40,000 years old, scientists reported on Wednesday, making it the oldest figurative art in the world. Until now, the oldest known human-made figures were ivory sculptures found in Germany. Scientists have estimated that those figurines — of horses, birds and people — were at most 40,000 years old. Researchers have found older man-made images, but ...