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Although many people believe that we "evolved" from thousand yr. old goo, I believe that God created the universe in 7 days !!! I am a Christian and if you read The Bible, In Genesis The 1st book in the bible, it says in chapter 1 verse 1 " In the begginning God created the Heavens and the earth. If you have any questions or doubts, read the bible for urself & come leave me a message on my message board, Love in Christ, Bethany (Pianoplayer)

You cannot "believe" in evolution, the same way as you cannot "believe" that the Earth orbits around the sun - it's a well known fact. The answers like the one above have always amused me. It's hard to "believe" that there's someone in this day and age who still doesn't accept evolution. To answer your question, first, you need to formulate it differently. In a nutshell, if you want to know when the life began on this planet then it is most certainly around 3.5 - 4 b.y.a. (Billion years ago), right after the planet formed around 4.5 b.y.a. It's hard to know exactly because not much of the archeological data was preserved since that time. The earliest fossil, I believe, dates to around 3.2 b.y.a.

If you're asking about the age of our kind (mammals), then it began around 65 m.y.a (Million years ago) when dinosaurs were extinct and our small burrowing ancestors could come out from hiding, not being afraid of being eaten by the former. The evolution separated primates from the rest of the mammals following this time-line: 57 m.y.a - first primates; 31 m.y.a - Old World monkeys; 8 m.y.a - gorillas & later chimpanzees; 4.5 m.y.a - early humans.

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