What are the theories of the origin of man?

Answer 1

To my limited knowledge of the scientific theory of the origin of man is that at some stage of earth's creation some form of life crawled from the sea. Many years later it became man through various stages of evolution. If one accepts this as being but one theory then one must accept that there are others. Remember that a theory does not contain all truth, but as the term suggests it is but a theory and is likely to change as new evidences are found.

If however one brings God into the equation then one will be bought nearer to the truth, that some power greater than man could organise man from the dust of the earth and put into him his spirit so that he became a living soul. One must also be mindful that the eagerly sought after "Missing Link", that is when the beast eventually became man has never been found.

Answer 2

The two most widely-known answers are the tradition of Creation, and the theory of the Big Bang followed by Evolution. According to the theory of the Big Bang followed by evolution, the Universe (and this Earth) resulted from random events stemming from natural laws, and life then developed by random processes, especially mutations.

The narrative of Divine Creation, which is contained in Genesis ch.1 and 2, states that God created the universe. This teaches us that God exists, that our lives and the world are not random, and that the created things may be assumed to contain vast wisdom in their beautiful and purposeful design. (In recent decades, this wisdom has indeed been partially revealed, through increasingly powerful microscopes.)Evolution through random mutations, on the other hand, may be understood as implying that life is an accident, that perceived beauty and wisdom are ultimately purposeless, and that our instinctive yearning for the Eternal is just an electrical impulse in our brain.

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Answer 3

There are various religious hypotheses, including the two creation accounts in Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Genesis 1:1-2:4b-25. In the first, God simply spoke man, both male and female, into existence on the sixth day. In the second, earlier and more primitive account, God's powers are more limited and he can not make living things out of nothing: first he makes a man (Adam) out of moist earth, then the animals also out of moist earth, then finally makes a woman (Eve) out of a rib he takes from Adam.

The scientific Theory of Evolution is based on evidence that has established that life arose in the seas and gradually moved onto land, where higher life forms evolved. DNA evidence shows that our ancestor diverged from the ancestor of other primates around 7 million years ago. We followed a line of evolution through Australopithicenes to Homo habilis and Homo erectusto modern man, Homo sapiens. Hundreds of fossils are testimony to this evolution.

Answer 4

There are several theories regarding the origin of humans, with the two most prominent being the theory of evolution, which posits that humans evolved from earlier primates over millions of years, and the theory of creationism, which states that humans were created by a divine being. Other theories include the multiregional hypothesis, which suggests that humans evolved independently in different regions, and the hybridization theory, which proposes that interbreeding between different human species led to the emergence of modern humans.

Answer 5

The creation theory and the big bang fall theory