Why are Earth's oldest cities in ruins ?

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   Ask and it will be given to you; seek 
and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; those who 
seek find; and to those who knock, the door will be opened.
Matthew 7:7-8

I understand, that in the Koran, God takes credit for destroying innumerable human cities:
And how many a city have WE destroyed, which was given to wrongdoing, so
 that it is fallen down on its roofs; and how many a well is deserted 
and how many a lofty castle lies in ruins !
Sura 22:45

And how many a town have We destroyed for turning unappreciative of 
their lives. So here are their homes, nothing but uninhabited ruins 
after them, except a few. We were the inheritors.
Sura 28:58
Indeed, Sumer was the Cradle of Human Civilization, upon this particular planet, beginning thousands of years before the days of Abraham.  And, Sumer was devastated by The Great Flood, about 2900 BC, which destruction is widely credited to God.

QUESTION: 

Have there been any cities, ever, in human history, which wound up destroyed and reduced to rubbled ruins, but whose destructions cannot be credited (ultimately) to God ?  Are there any ancient (human) civilizations, like Sumer or Egypt, whose eventual complete cultural collapses -- so that, for example, Cuneiform & Hieroglyphics lay lost & forgotten for many millennia -- cannot be credited (ultimately) to God ?

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Bismarck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 March 2006 Status: Offline Points: 286	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bismarck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Why are Earth's oldest cities in ruins ? Posted: 07 May 2010 at 2:02pm
	Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; those who seek find; and to those who knock, the door will be opened. Matthew 7:7-8 I understand, that in the Koran, God takes credit for destroying innumerable human cities: And how many a city have WE destroyed, which was given to wrongdoing, so that it is fallen down on its roofs; and how many a well is deserted and how many a lofty castle lies in ruins* !* Sura 22:45 And how many a town have We destroyed* for turning unappreciative of their lives. So here are their homes, nothing but uninhabited ruins after them, except a few. We were the inheritors.* Sura 28:58 Indeed, Sumer was the Cradle of Human Civilization, upon this particular planet, beginning thousands of years before the days of Abraham. And, Sumer was devastated by The Great Flood, about 2900 BC, which destruction is widely credited to God. QUESTION: Have there been any cities, ever, in human history, which wound up destroyed and reduced to rubbled ruins, but whose destructions cannot be credited (ultimately) to God ? Are there any ancient (human) civilizations, like Sumer or Egypt, whose eventual complete cultural collapses -- so that, for example, Cuneiform & Hieroglyphics lay lost & forgotten for many millennia -- cannot be credited (ultimately) to God ?