Were there morals before men wrote the Bible?

"Morals" from the Bible: Kill anyone who works on the Sabbath. Kill disobedient children. Kill anyone who worships the wrong god.

Of course there were. As you point out, the Bible is a relatively late development in the history of mankind, even if you include the Old Testament portions, which are much older than 2000 years.

The concept of the Golden Rule, for example, long predates its co-option by Judeo-Christianity. And surely you're aware of such things as the Code of Hammurabi -- you can't have laws without some system of morality -- and ethics in Greek philosophy?

Human beings have been on the earth a lot longer than a mere 150,000 years. They were simply earlier versions.

By the way, there is EVERY justification for morals in the absence of a god. This life is precious because it is all we have. It is incumbent upon us to make it the best it can be, and that means living by laws, morals, and ethics, so as to ensure the quality and safety of life for all.

Umm, the bible is about 4500 years old, according to scholars. But nevertheless, morals have nothing to do with the bible. In the bible, God consigns all of man kind to pain and suffering (even little babies) because one woman ate some fruit.

In the bible, the entire world is killed, including the little babies) because we were all 'wicked'

In the bible, the first born of an entire nation were killed (including the little babies) because their leader, Pharoah, decided not to listen to what one man told him about his invisible God.

In the bible, God told his people to kill all the men of an opposing tribe, including the children, but to rape the women and then make them their wives.

Yeah, we really needed the bible to teach us morality.

I'm sure the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Jews, Celts, Druids, Norse, etc, etc all thought their societies laws were based on morally acceptable behavior. Xians need to get over themselves. They haven't been around that long comparatively. And the old OT laws/acceptable behavior changed over time b/c of Greek/Roman influence in the NT.

Yes. That's where the writers of the Bible got them.

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”

― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

As far back as Adam and Eve, there were morals. Remember, that after they sinned, God said they now had the Godly trait of knowing good from evil. To know the difference between good and evil is the basis of a moral code.

Gen 3:22 -

"And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: "

Yes. Actually the Bible was written much earlier and was compiled (as we usually receive it today) much later than 2,000 years ago.

The Bible was an account written by many authors who passed their history down through the generations; which is extremely longer than 2,000 years ago.

Of course, as soon as you have more than two people living together, a society, you need morals, a kind of code for what you can and can't do.

Morals are not bound to a religion. Objective morals, yes. Subjective morals, no.

The bible was 'written' 2000 years ago, but the moral code and biblical stories had been held and sacredly passed down in the Jewish oral tradition for 4000 years before that, going back to Adam