who is, or was, the first man on earth?

Answer 1

1. Acording to the bible, Adam was the first man on earth, and Eve the first woman.

2. How would you dephine man? At what point does the primate, decended from apes, become a human? After all, for long periods of time, we drifted in between the two, with fur but walking on two legs.

Answer 2

It is a very good question and to give a definate answer would be impossible.

The only text we have availiable is the book of Genesis but this is wholy unreliable as in my opinion it has no more credence that a story written by the brothers Grimm.

If you take it as is written in the bible the bible would go like this God created Adam and eve. Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel Cain killed Abel. Here endeth the bible .

For people to bable on about evolution and man evolving from monkeys is also badlly floored, especially when scientists had to admit that Neanderthal man was not related to Homo Sapiens.

That admission somewhat debunks the evolution period.

My own personal view is that our origin is elsewhere not of this world it really is the only thing that makes any sense at all.

Therefor it is possible that the first man wa Adam but he wasn,t made from the jaw bone of an ***.

Father Graham

Answer 3

The first man on earth [as in premier] is Homer Simpson.

The first [as in first] was Fred Flintstone.

The first civilised human on earth has not yet been born.

Adam is the first man for whom we have written evidence.

I don't have a huge problem with the bible account for Adam and Eve. And I have no problem with Cain and Abel and Seth and the rest of the Adameve children. But I have a HUGE problem with the next generation, who must have all been produced by incest and accordingly have been subject to all the problems brought about by a limited gene pool.

However the whole bleeding lot of you are a bunch of male chauvanist pigs as no-one has considered the bilogical possiblity that women have a place in the equation.

Answer 4

According to Genesis and ancient Sumerian legend, it was Adam.

However, modern advances in genetics doesn't support this very well. A genetic profiling experiment was conducted to see if the Adam and Eve story had some truth. The results showed that we all have a shared female ancestor who lived in Africa several thousand (or million) years ago. We also have a common male ancestor, but he was around at least a few thousand years after African 'Eve'. This has posed a problem with regard to human origins and I suspect that the reason why they aren't publicly making a meal of it is that there are a lot of religious zealots about who are shy of creating another Dark Age.

Answer 5

The chicken...just before the egg. Adam was a metaphor, just as was most of the bible. Jesus talked in metaphors all of the time. I'm not extremely religious but I believe that the bible is the closest thing we have to a history book. I'd say that 1/10th is fact, and 90% is opinion, speculation, or straight out lie that fits someone's desires at the time.

We know that there was a time in the history of Earth where no humans had lived. DNA, carbon dating all tell us the loose story of evolution. In Genesis, God created light and dark, moulded land between waters, then vegetation, then sea-air-land creatures (respectively), and finally...human. That all seems to happen right in the order that Darwin first suggested. Coincidence? I think not. So what's the big debate between God and Evolution? Humph. Got me.

Answer 6

That is unknown. Unless you count the first human to start walking upright. Whether is was a man or a woman I have not heard. But it would seem to me that there would have to have been a pair not a single man to have developed into man as we know them today.

As to the name, you might call them the "Other's" as the bible also mentions them as the way Cain got his wife after he killed Abel. So there must have been others there when Adam and Eve were made by God or there wouldn't have been anywhere else for Cain to get himself a wife from.

Asking about the first man, seems to me is the same as asking where the first Dinosaur came from. I have not heard that being stated either.

Answer 7

Depends on your viewpoint and, as your responses show, religious convictions. Christianity would say Adam. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament#Christian_view_of_the_Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogies_of_Genesis). Of course, the first 5 books of the bible, the Hebrew Torah or Islamic Tawrat, would follow similar lines. The Torah is said in the Hebrew tradition to have been written by Moses at some point in the 13th Century BC, so probably contemporary with Ramses II in Egypt. The earliest 'Christian' texts are later than this, the best preserved being the Dead Sea Scrolls .

From the creationist viewpoint you could work back through the genealogies given in the first books of the Bible and the Torah from Moses to Adam, reaching a date for Adam at some point in the 6th-5th millennium BC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogies_of_Genesis).

If you do not follow these religious convictions then the 6th-5th millennium BC would seem a little late. The extensive cities excavated by archaeologists in the Near East in places like Turkey (See many articles on the settlement of Catal Hoyuk which dates to at least the 7th-8th millennium BC), Iran, Iraq and Syria date to much earlier epochs.

If you are looking for an evolutionary perspective then the earliest 'man' evolves from the genus Homininae of which Gorillas are our cousins. In this line the 'Homo', 'Australopithecus' and Chimpanzee lineages diverged at some point about 6 or 7 million years ago. Of our cousins the 'Australopithecus' a skeleton named 'Lucy' represents the earliest examples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus) from some point 5-4 million years ago. From our own branch, the 'Homo' species, we are the sole surviving group (as far as we know!), the Homo Sapiens Sapiens, who evolved about a quarter of a million years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens_sapiens). Much work has been done in Africa by the Leakeys on the early origins of Man, in particular our oldest direct ancestor 'Homo Habilis' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_habilis) who lived about 2.5 million years ago.

Answer 8

The first man on earth.... Adam

Answer 9

According to the bible, adam was the first man on earth. However, if you believe in darwinism then man slowly evolved from primates. So then it would depend exactly what you think seperates man from primate. And even so probably many men in the same step of evolution were born at the same time.

Answer 10

Adam was the first man on earth. God is not man because man makes mistakes and God does not make mistake.Even if people think he does.