This is a question that I have wondered for a long time.?

Question

This is about the theory of evolution. If we evolved from apes, or fish or whatever, how did that very first baby, the very first, how did it live? How did it learn to survive? Being young it could not have reproduced and adapted. Does this not prove that there had to be some higher power that created humans?

Ok, lets get down to the basics then. I respect your answers but here is this. As things evolved how did we learn and adapt? Simply put, without guidence, how did we make it? As something is first made, then does not live, another is made, that one would also die. Lack of knowledge. So how did WE happen?

Answer 1

i studied Darwin's theory, and i don't agree with it. humans don't evolve from apes for sure. because if we evolved from apes, why we've never encountered the intermediate beings? why there are only humans and apes? why there aren't some sort of creatures in between? yeah..i believe there's a higher power that created us all. e.g, cake doesn't appear just like that, we have to bake it. so, we call ourselves as the creator of the cake.

and...humans don't exist just like that. there should be a creator..and we call him, God.

Answer 2

Simple answer

All life has a common ancestor from where it evolved from.

A organism wouldn't be aware of the changes over time, which are through millions of years, therefore the organisms would be caring for there young without even being aware off the changes.

A modern example

The human race is evolving constantly but we are unaware of it. As we are evolving, we are caring for our young at the same time. This is how the new evolved people survive because we are not aware of evolution to closely. If we were, something like the X-Men might happen but with out the super powers.

Answer 3

> I have wondered for a long time.?
You mean a short time. Half a billion years is a long time.

> very first baby
There is no "very first baby." Rather, we get a continuous stream of young that are very similar to their mothers. In species in which the mothers care for infants, then the babies were cared for by their mothers. In species in which they aren't, then the babies were born with the ability to fend for themselves.

> Does this not prove that there had to be some higher power that created humans?
Natural selection, mutations, and genetic drift don't constitute a "higher power," so, no.

> Simply put, without guidence, how did we make it?
Most life on Earth does just fine without parental involvement or culturally learned behavior. From the time that these became important to a population, babies weren't "created" in isolation. The youngsters were taught by their parents.

Answer 4

The theory of evolution implies a gradual process, not that one day an ape mother gave birth to a human baby and then abandoned it.

Some animals are hard-wired with survival instincts and behavior, while others, like we primates, including apes, are taught almost everything by our parents and others in our group and by observation and experimenting. The theory is that over many generations, one branch of "ape-dom" gradually evolved into hominids and then humans, each generation teaching its offspring how to survive, how to find food, how to avoid predators, etc., with new, learned skills and requirements as suitable to the changes in their form and abilities. Other species simply inherit the instinctive behavior they need, even as the lineage evolves into a variant of that species.

Evolution is simply a theoretical mechanism for the emergence of new species or variations of them. It doesn't prove or disprove the existence of a Creator who might have designed the mechanism itself.

Answer 5

OK this is a common misconception about evolution, and people should really learn the specifics before declaring that it is proof that evolution is wrong. First of all what about the parents of this baby? Assuming that the baby you're talking about is the first homo sapien that would be genetically classified as a modern human, the baby's parents would very closely resemble humans, they would just have slight genetic differences. Evolution happened gradually over time, and there were specie similar to humans that gave birth to a mutant of their race, the first human. The baby's parents cared for it like any other parents would.

Answer 6

You need to brush up on your evolution theory studies. The whole point about evolution is that there was no "first" baby anything. All life evolved from lower forms until you get to the single celled animals which may have been deposited here from space via comets.

Answer 7

I believe that the rise of humanity was the will of God, and that the Book of Genesis established that effectively without giving humans a complete cheat sheet to their 5,000 years of science homework.

"David" is right about how it happened.

I think that all matter has incredibly transcendent properties, that allow it to be assembled into very complex things. Life, technology. The laws of physics that allow for this can't be an accident. Otherwise, there would be nothing more complex in this universe than rocks.

Answer 8

you need to do more study. we did not evolve from any in which you mention. rather evolution is simply change through time!!! we share a common ancestor with all the organisms you mention and the closer to that original animal the closer you are related...just like a family tree. thus your question about raising a baby is a mute point and makes no sense in the context of the question

Answer 9

Read the Bible, even though it's full of lies. It's kind of hard to be open minded about that. Have you heard about THE BIG BANG?! Apparently that was the beginning of everything. It is kind of hard to belief that that's where faith comes into play.