Question Between Religion ans Science!?

Question

As in any religion, we all know that Adam was the first human on Earth.
While in Science, we read that the first humans were so primative like the Neanderthal, and Gorilla-like body shapes, they were nude and even weren't able to speak.
Was Adam look like these people, or look like the Modern Humans?
Is it possible that God Created Adam at that shape?
Can someone expalin this for me?
Thank you!

Answer 1

Please *learn* science before making scientific assertions.
"first humans were so primative like the Neanderthal"
NOT EVEN CLOSE...
- H. neanderthalensis was likely NOT even an ancestor.
- H. sapiens idaltu, H. heidelbergensis, H. habilis, H. rudolfensis, H. ergaster, *many* Australopithecines WERE likely ancestors, and vastly pre-date Neanderthal.
- H. sapiens sapiens has been here for ~130,000 years, wildly longer than the mythical ~6,000 yo 'Adam' and 'Eve'.

“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.” -- Alan Turing

“To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.” -- Richard Dawkins

Answer 2

No Adam and Eve were very much developed more like we are today. Actually the Bible is used as a reference to Adam and Eve like they were the first Humans but this was not so according to other books of Information. Having studied Studied two full Courses of Anthropology in College, I found as well as the two Nuns who were in my class that Science and Evolution work with Creationism. There were several breeds of Man before Homosapien. Some were , excuse the spelling, Astiopithicus, Ramapithicus, Gigantithropitus, Homo Erectus Then HomoSapien. There are also Stories that are quite amazing in the Book of Urantia that will intrigue you I'm sore on the History of Man before Adam and Eve.
Does it matter How God made mankind and how he developed. It is enough to realize that God did make all that is. Why argue over something that is a Mute point.
I have read that the first residence on Earth was by angel like beings. The Earth is the most beautiful planet in the Universe and it has been an experiment. Many Visitors have been here and it has been as a Vacation spot or a place of adventure and scientific research for eons. Another good set of books is called Convoluted Universe by Doloris Cannon.
Enjoy!
Rev. TomCat

Answer 3

Unlike ex Christian, I believe that science can go hand-in-hand. Now please be advised, that this is only my own thoughts and I don't have anything to back it up. The Bible says the world was created in 7 days. It doesn't say the days were a 24 hour day. I believe that after God created each portion of the earth he called it a day. In other words, when he said let there be light and created light, it may have taken many many years, but when he finished, he called it a day. It took quite sometime to make humans. He started them out in the gorilla shape you talk about and kept evolving until they became modern man, which was Adam. That is why the earth and humans are several thousand years old, and the Bible is only a few thousand years old. Admittedly, this sounds better in my head then written here.

Answer 4

For those who think that God's time creating the earth was billions of years, then why does it say, each day of creation "There was evening, and there was morning. The first day" and "There was evening, and there was morning, the second day"-----and so on?
Adam and Eve were really the 1st people, literally. Are we literally people? Yes. the Bible IS historical. And, also, the Bible does speak of cave dwellers. They were liked shunned from where they lived. Maybe it was because they looked different than other people, maybe it was because they were abominations which the Bible also talks about. But, they were't neanderthals, ect. That's something men made up to go with their evolution THEORY.

Answer 5

Adam looked like a modern human in my OPINION. There is a verse in Genesis chapter one, that on the sixth day God created man and woman, "male and female, created He, them. He told them to go forth multiply and replenish the earth"
Then on the seventh day He rested. Then chapter two, He created Adam then Eve.

MY logic tells me that maybe, just maybe He created all the other humans , the caveman humans, and then he created His chosen race.

That in NO WAY means that there is a pure race. Adam and Eve disappointed Him by eating the fruit, and then Cain went out and met his wife. They had children. there is no mention of what happened with the other children of Adam, but I am sure somewhere down the line, there were inter-marriages. That is why DNA proves everyone on earth is related, at least distantly.

Answer 6

Cutie,.... not ALL Religions accept that Adam and Eve were the first people on the Earth, ONLY the Abrahamic Religions hold that to be a belief. So, therefore, we ALL do NOT know that Adam and Eve WERE the first. You are assuming that ONLY because that's what you were "taught" by your Religion. Do NOT assume that EVERYONE accepts that as a fact NOR as a matter of Faith.

Raji the Green Witch

Answer 7

Genesis 1:26-31 will tell you that man and women were created on the 6th day. That they were created in His (Gods) image and that they were considered "very good" by God.
Genesis 2 will tell you that after the seventh day, God created Adam and Eve to be caretakers of the land - garden of Eden. This would tell you that Adam and Eve were created on the eigth day and that mankind already existed before Adam.
As for science and how mankind looked after being created by God - we were created in His image therefore we look now as we did then. Please rememer, evolution is a theory-not a reality. Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" is just that - a "theory."

Answer 8

Here is what I believe. What we call evolution is God's process of creating. I don't believe that nature and life occurred by happen chance or accident. Everything is too complicated and exacting. Also, I believe that there are things that were put here for our specific enjoyment. Yes, I do believe that the earth is billions of years old and when Moses wrote Genesis, he used allegories and metaphors so the people could understand. God is infinite and timeless. A billion years is like an instant. If God made all the creatures slowly over time (what we call evolution) and then He decided He wanted a creature to commune with, I have no problem if He did branch us off an ape. In His image means being able to commune with Him, communicate, reason, think, create and especially, love. So yes, I believe there was an early man. I don't believe Adam and Eve were early man and woman but the finished product. Civilized man is 6,000 years old but the Bible is not an historical or scientific textbook, but a series of 66 books dealing with man's spiritual nature.

Answer 9

--ADAM & EVE had to be the most handsome & beautiful people to ever exist, as humans!
--HERE IS WHAT scientists of proven science , not evolution ,have to say as what man looked like 6,000 years ago:

*** ce chap. 7 p. 89 pars. 19-20 “Ape-Men”—What Were They? ***
--The book The Biology of Race answers: “The flesh and hair on such reconstructions have to be filled in by resorting to the imagination.” It adds: “Skin color; the color, form, and distribution of the hair; the form of the features; and the aspect of the face—of these characters we know absolutely nothing for any prehistoric men.”23
***What Did They Look Like?
--19 However, if man’s ancestors were not apelike, why do so many pictures and replicas of “ape-men” flood scientific publications and museums around the world? On what are these based? The book The Biology of Race answers: “The flesh and hair on such reconstructions have to be filled in by resorting to the imagination.” It adds: “Skin color; the color, form, and distribution of the hair; the form of the features; and the aspect of the face—of these characters we know absolutely nothing for any prehistoric men.”23
--20 Science Digest also commented: “The vast majority of artists’ conceptions are based more on imagination than on evidence. . . . Artists must create something between an ape and a human being; the older the specimen is said to be, the more apelike they make it.”24 Fossil hunter Donald Johanson acknowledged: “No one can be sure just what any extinct hominid looked like.”25
--21 Indeed, New Scientist reported that there is not “enough evidence from fossil material to take our theorising out of the realms of fantasy.”26 So the depictions of “ape-men” are, as one evolutionist admitted, “pure fiction in most respects . . . sheer invention.”27 Thus in Man, God and Magic Ivar Lissner commented: “Just as we are slowly learning that primitive men are not necessarily savages, so we must learn to realize that the early men of the Ice Age were neither brute beasts nor semi-apes nor cretins. Hence the ineffable stupidity of all attempts to reconstruct Neanderthal or even Peking man"
.”
***** ce chap. 7 pp. 95-96 “Ape-Men”—What Were They? ***
***The Human Family
--34 Neanderthal man (named after the Neander district in Germany where the first fossil was found) was undoubtedly human. At first he was pictured as bent over, stupid looking, hairy and apelike. Now it is known that this mistaken reconstruction was based on a fossil skeleton badly deformed by disease. Since then, many Neanderthal fossils have been found, confirming that he was not much different from modern humans. In his book Ice, Fred Hoyle stated: “There is no evidence that Neanderthal man was in any way inferior to ourselves.”51 As a result, recent drawings of Neanderthals have taken on a more modern look.
--35 Another fossil type frequently encountered in scientific literature is Cro-Magnon man. It was named for the locality in southern France where his bones were first unearthed. These specimens “were so virtually indistinguishable from those of today that even the most skeptical had to concede that they were humans,” said the book Lucy.52
--36 Thus, the evidence is clear that belief in “ape-men” is unfounded. Instead, humans have all the earmarks of being created—separate and distinct from any animal. Humans reproduce only after their own kind. They do so today and have always done so in the past. Any apelike creatures that lived in the past were just that—apes, or monkeys—not humans. And fossils of ancient humans that differ slightly from humans of today simply demonstrate variety within the human family

Answer 10

Only Christians ( and Jews ) believe in Adam. No other religion does. As far as science is concerned, the story of Adam and Eve is an imaginary fiction.

You have go to college and learn science to know what is happening in this world. Otherwise you will end up in believing what they told you in church.

Answer 11

Primitive humans like "Neanderthal" (as you say) are someones opinions and there is no factual evidence for it as first reported. The latest news I remember on Neanderthal was that they were fully human and the first ideas about them were in error. The first specimens had no skulls and most of the information on them was conjecture. Later many Neanderthals were found, and scientist realized that they were just humans-nothing more. Unfortunately mistakes seem to take on a life of their own once they are set free in the world of make believe.