what do you believe to be the origin of the humans?

Question

the one said in the bible or the one said by Charles Darwin and other scientists?

Answer 1

Here, meet our relatives:

Australopithecus ramidus - 5 to 4 million years ago
Australopithecus afarensis - 4 to 2.7 million years ago
Australopithecus africanus - 3.0 to 2.0 million years ago
Australopithecus robustus - 2.2 to 1.0 million years ago
Homo habilis - 2.2 to 1.6 million years ago
Homo erectus - 2 to 0.4 million years ago
Homo sapiens - 400,000 to 200,000 years ago
Homo sapiens neandertalensis - 200,000 to 30,000 years ago
Homo sapiens sapiens - 130,000 years ago to present

Before them, between 5 and 10 million years ago, there was our common ancestor with the apes. This is what is romantically called "The missing link".

Anyone who tells you we are not related to them is basing their arguments on faith, not science. The evidence for evolution is overwhelming, and the only way to argue against it is to ignore all the evidence from many independent branches of science.
Evolution is evidence based understanding, it is not about faith. It is accepted by most mainstream churches. The Catholic church separates the evolution of the body from the development of the soul, and hence has accepted evolution as a scientific probability, just like they accepted that the Earth revolved around the Sun many years ago.

To me, understanding evolution does not require a great deal of scientific knowledge. Did you ever wonder why lions and a pet cat look very similar to each other? Or why the Dodo bird was flightless, seemingly just waiting for man to come to their island and hunt them to extinction?
It is ignorance to accept that these things were just put there. Evolution is the only theory which explains the differences and similarities between all species of life on Earth. It is one of the most robust, yet elegant, theories to be put forward.

The main objections to evolution, as I said, are theological, and seem to suggest that it is an insult to link humans to other Apes, but there are too many similarities for it to be otherwise.

Evolution explains the similarities and differences between all the living things on Earth. Creationists just ask you to accept that it is so, and be content.

Answer 2

Labsci has the right idea but he missed a few species. We do not know that A. Afarensis or H. erectus is in our ancestry and it doesn't appear that Neanderthals were either. We are decended from a long line of bipedal apes probably including Orrorin and/or Sahelanthropus. It seems likely to me that our ancestors were bipedal for at least 8 million years contrary to most stuck in the mud anthropologists. The interesting thing is that implies chimps and gorillas probably evolved from our common bipedal ancestors. Shall we believe Galileo or the priests that nearly killed him for heresy. Of course Galileo was right and it is just as obvious that Darwin was/is correct.

Answer 3

The bible says that men are created from clay while women are created from the ribs of man. Hmm, I feel insulted to think that my ancestors were created from dirt and clay. And we were created in the image of God? So the Judeo-Christian God is a primate humanoid bipod with facial hair that's the result of dead cells?


Evolution, on the other hand, says it took 700+ million years of trial and error to get to our form today. We are directly evolved from primate like creatures (evolution has NEVER said we come from monkeys).

So which one is better, created from dirt and clay by a humanoid Trinity God(s) OR evolved 700+ million years in a complex and a highly selective (not random) process?


Also to add on to Labsci:
Australopithecus afarensis - (Taung Child)
4 to 2.7 million years ago

Australopithecus africanus - (Lucy)
3.0 to 2.0 million years ago

Also, Java Man and Peking Man are of interest.

Answer 4

Go with Charles Darwin/Evolution...it's much smarter and it makes a lot of sense. Evolution provides proof whereas creation comes from the imagination of probably half-drunk prophets.

Answer 5

Keep in mind that we are incomprehendibly more complex than a computer, now imagine two computers arguing about whether or not humans exist and made them. "OF COURSE THEY DO!!!, WE'RE FAR TOO COMPLEX TO BE MADE BY CHANCE!!!".... "That's true, but all of those smarter computers (the ones with access to the internet [written by humans, of course]) say that we got here by chance..."

This is exactly what scientists are doing. They are studying this universe that God created and saying that it was created by chance. They have answered the eternal question of "Why" with "Just because."

Bye the way, just to avoid stereotypes, I'm not an uninformed bible nut. I'm something of a scientist myself. I have an IQ of 148, can solve the rubick's cube in under a minute, and have memorized pi to the 300th decimal place (I got bored...). The only difference between most other scientists and myself is that I don't assume that the text books are right. I prove it for myself and evolution CANNOT be proven.

btw, Darwin married his cousin because of his theory... he wanted his genetics to stay close to the same so that his children would be one of the "fittest"... all but one died and the one that lived had serious mental issues...

I would highly recommend checking out Kent Hovind's videos. You can watch them for free on google videos. (No copyright, so it's legal.)

Answer 6

as you know there are some contradictions between the two theories... i think that there are so many myths around the globe concerning the origin of homo sapiens, so where is the truth? there are no exact reality, it all depends on what you want to believe, every theory has its mistakes and even darwinism is fallible... there are no scientific proved reality on the origin of human beings...

Answer 7

It does not matter what I believe, because the truth does not care about my beliefs and the truth is true, whether I believe in it or not. The theory of evolution by natural selection has mountains of evidence, from many disciplines, supporting it. The bible version has not one scintilla of evidence supporting it and, if literally taken, is dead wrong. Go here for the truth.

http://www.talkorigins.org

Answer 8

the bible. if you believe Jesus, then there should be no question as to God's supernatural ability. doing so, you would not believe anything else but HIM. so even though one can believe in both together, it is not consistent nor does it make much sense. science vs. the holy messiah. you decide.

Answer 9

Humans are a very smart species, however, we don;t have the intelligence or knowledge to ever be able to answer this question, no matter how much we did. even humans have their limitations.

the only thing we can say for certain is that we had to have come form somewhere.

Answer 10

We know of evolution by fossils. Genesis is from a book as is the Odyssey.