I know this might sound like a silly question...?

Question

But as everyone starts off as a baby, who looked after the first baby human, as obviously its mother would have been a baby before and so on, also in baby animals aswell, who carried the first babies in their womb, i know their mothers did but it just goes on and on untill there seems like no begining.

Answer 1

It does sound like a very silly question.

A better question might have been, How old was Adam when he was created ?

Answer 2

Every creature that can successfully reproduce generation after generation has the necessary skills to procreate and to care for children. It is either born with the necessary instincts or it has other members of the species to teach it.

A plant produces seeds, often many more than it needs to produce a new generation, because some will be eaten, some will not germinate, etc. A variety of creative methods are used to distribute the seeds to supportive locations, burrs, fluff, wind, water currents, the digestive systems of other animals. The plant didn't think of any of these ideas, it just mutated spontaneously. If its seeds developed a means of attaching themselves to other creatures and got carried to places where they could grow up, that was a successful adaptation. If the seeds didn't get carried somewhere else and all grew up competing with each other or getting eaten by birds, that was an unsuccessful adaptation and such plants did not survive to another generation.

Among animals, some have developed in such a way that no parental care is needed. Fish, reptiles, amphibians and insects generally know how to survive their childhood in sufficient numbers to maintain a population. Many others, such as birds and mammals, require parental care to reach adulthod. The adults did not necessarily "invent" the methods. They either had the instinct in their genes or other members of the species taught them. How did these methods come to be? Trial and error. Ineffective methods led to death by predator, starvation or exposure and eventual extinction of the species.. Effective methods led to a new generation with the learned or inherited skill to raise a succeeding generation. In other words, nature eliminated the "bad" parents by eliminating their children. The good parents survived to pass on their skills through their children.

The hominid parents of the first true humans already had the skills to care for babies. If they didn't, they would not have made it to adulthood to produce the next generation. Gorillas, chimps, baboons, all know how to look after their babies. The ancestors of humans did too.

Answer 3

As others have said, this is basically the old chicken and the egg question.

The answer is, of course, evolution.

A lot of people have a hard time believing evolution, so I like to bring it a bit closer to home and discuss it in terms of something more easily understood...

Dog breeds.

All North European dog breeds were bred, by humans, from the wolf. Picking a breed at random, let's say the Golden Retriever. The Golden Retriever was bred, by humans, by breeding wolves and then picking the puppies that had the characteristics that they were looking for (docile, obedient, loyal, etc.) and then breeding those and then again picking the puppies with the characteristics they wanted. Humans did this for generation after generation and produced many breeds of dog that were significantly different from wolves, but were not yet Golden Retrievers.

To finally get to our Golden Retriever we have to look as recently as 1865 when Lord Tweedmouth crossed a yellow wavy coated puppy from a litter of black Retrievers with a Water Spaniel b*tch. He continued selectively breeding until in 1889 he finally got his Golden Retriever. (You can read the whole story here if you're interested... http://www.mytammy.co.uk/history.html)

So, where did the first Golden Retriever come from? Did God make it by magic? No. Ultimately it came from Lord Tweedmouth breeding his dogs Quennie and Nous II. (But it actually took him 25 years of selective breeding.)

Natural evolution works in pretty much the same way, except, of course, the selection process is Mother Nature, via natural selection (survival of the fittest). Changes in an animal's environment force it to change.

Let's look at another simple example. Let's imagine a short haired animal living in a warm place. If ever one of these animals was randomly born with thick fur, it would tend to die young because it would get too hot. Thus this animal stays short haired.

Now let's suppose that the climate changes and it slowly starts getting colder. Now, when one of these animals was randomly born with thick fur, it would actually be *more* likely to survive because *now* keeping warm is a *good* thing. Thus, over many generations as the climate gets colder, more and more of this animal will be born with thick fur.

Eventually, the climate gets so cold that being short haired spells certain death. Thus, all the short haired animals die off and we are left with only the thick furred variety.

That (in simple terms) is evolution.

Answer 4

It's the chicken and the egg question again. There is such a lot of stupid answers given to your questions, beyond reasonable. We have evolved over millions of years and we started off as bacteria. We are just another animal and other animals also carry their babies in their womb. Please read some books, do some research, use your brain may it have been given by your mum or by a god. Use it!

Answer 5

If you disregard the religion rubbish trying to make things 'create' , you arrive back at reality and determine that the human animal evolved just as any other species has evolved.
And the 'human' of one generation is superseded by the 'human' of the next generation... changing ever so slightly in order to survive the slight change in the earths structure and physique. And so it goes on........... Microbe to caveman to homo sapien to whatever will be next.
Happy pagan festivities !.

Answer 6

depends what u believe..creation or alien intervention or evolution but it still doesnt really answer the chicken egg thing does it? eventually u r gunna b left with something from nothing or something that couldnt possibly fend for itself.
its a tough one that.. i reckon life happened all over the universe but only a very few lucky places did it take off n develope how it did on earth.. a chance in almost infinity which is why we cannot fathom how it happened.
a turtle lays eggs on the beach..how many of them hatch n make it to the sea n grow n live a long life. think of life in general being the same concept..its a rare event we were really fortunate.
billions failed so we may live..pure chance i guess

Answer 7

Apparently we just appeared one day, reached for a fig leaf and nine months after Autumn came along, we had the first baby. Or perhaps we evolved over millions of years into what we are today. I know which seems the more likely to me. We only need to look at technology to see where humble beginnings can lead.

Answer 8

You are still thinking 'mathematically'
Life dont work that way
all humans dont go back to 2 humans
In other words, there was NO 1st baby human

We evolved

Its like suggesting that A black person and a white person will give birth to a grey baby

Answer 9

Evolution or Religion? That's the billion dollar question.

Merry Christmas

Answer 10

Since you asked a "silly question" I'm going to answer it with a couple more "silly questions". Did Adam and Eve have navels? They wouldn't have needed them but if they didn't have them then why did their children's fetuses develop them?

Answer 11

if you believe the garbage they force feed you in school and mass media, yeah its confusing. thats what modern , politically correct science is - elaborately explaining the fact that science can't explain the origin- of life because they made a formula that ignores and denies closest reality in life, the supernatural. but about the first 'baby human' check the court cases and documents on how the pre-human fossil 'skeletons' were fakes: i.e. a scientist was paid to say a pig's tooth a caveman, a donkey's jawbone, and some other crazy scenarios. peace