Who was the first person to live?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

It is not possible to determine the first person to live. Human existence dates back hundreds of thousands of years, with the exact emergence of the first humans being a complex and evolving topic in anthropology and Paleontology.

Answer 3

We do not know who was the first person to live. Humans evolved around two million years ago in Africa and our primitive ancestors gradually migrated to Europe, Asia and elsewhere. There is ample evidence of this process and a large number of primitive skeletons have been found and dated scientifically. Remains of over 6,000 protohuman individuals have been found to date. Major homo finds include:

• Homo habilis, who lived from about 2.4 to 1.4 million years ago
• Homo erectus, who lived from about 1.8 mya to 70,000 years ago.
• Often the early phase of Homo erectus, from 1.8 to 1.25 million years bp, is considered to be a separate species or subspecies, Homo ergaster or Homo erectus ergaster

A newly defined human species was named Homo naledi in 2015, by which time 15 complete or near-complete skeletons had been unearthed from a cave in South Africa. It is not yet possible to say how old Homo naledi were, but paleoanthropologists say they probably lived over 2 million years ago.

There are several other apparent species of homo, but they are so far represented by only fragmentary remains. In all, remains of about 14 potential species of homo are being evaluated. Apart from the Homo genus, there are several species of Australopithecus, a very early hominid genus and even earlier groups. A famous example of the Australopithecusgenus, nicknamed 'Lucy', is a 40 percent complete skeleton of a species of hominid discovered in 1974 and now known as Australopithecus Afarensis. She lived about 3 million years ago. A skull also found at the same site clearly demonstrated that Lucy's kind were small-brained, although they walked upright. Since hominids as early as Lucy could already walk upright, the common misconceptions of an oversimplified development from knuckle-walking ancestors are clearly wrong.

Many religions have their own explanation about the origin of people. In the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), the first person is traditionally believed to have been Adam. However, many Jews and Christians do not believe that the creation stories need be taken literally.

Answer 4

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From A Christian perspective we know that the person who first lived and walked upon the earth was named Adam. This is stated in The Bible book of Genesis 2:7 with his name first mentioned in verse 19.

Absolutely nothing in science has contradicted this, although many have claimed to finally have proof of evolution, human or otherwise. What does contradict it is the interpretations which people who believe other than the Bible wish to put on the same evidence - after all we live on the same earth. To state or even imply, that a persons belief in the literal existence of Adam as the first human, does not match the scientific evidence is a false and misleading statement. The large number of 'primitive skeletons' which have scientific value for use to support the alleged evolution of man would apparently fit on an average dining room table. (This is from those who do actual research into this area) They do not conclusively support evolution.

Adam walked the earth about 6000 years ago and there is plenty of scientific evidence that points to a young earth as well. In fact the evolutionary theory requires belief in spontaneous generation of life on a primitive earth, eventually leading through many millions of years to man. The problem is, not only has spontaneous generation of life been disproved by Pasteur over 100 years ago, the science since then has shown how vast is the gulf between life and non-life and how much complexity is in the simplest cell. The fossil record, which is primarily a record of the order of burial in the worldwide flood of Noah's day, itself does not support evolution either.

According to Professor Marvin Lubenow the various categories of humans on the alleged evolutionary timescale were living as contemporaries. Thus they did not evolve, even according to the evolutionary theory in a line from an ape-like ancestor to man.It has been stated that Lubenow has mis-understood evolutionary theory and so his arguments are therefore weakened. One point in this regard which is certainly clear, even if one does accept that there is a mis-understanding, is that evolution requires a transition from one type to another down to modern humans.The point made by Lubenow and John Woomerappe as well is that there is no clear evolutionary transition from early to modern man, even using the evolutionists own finds. The article 'The non-transitions in human evolution - on evolutionists own terms' is based on the work of two evolutionists Wood and Collard and concludes:'Typical textbooks show the following progression: an apelike knuckle-walking primate, followed by forms which are progressively larger, progressively more bipedal, and progressively more intelligent-all culminating in us modern humans. As we have seen, the scientific evidence shows no such thing.The relevant evidence clearly shows that Homo sapiens sensu lato is a separate and distinct entity from the other hominids. No overall evolutionary progression is to be found. Adam and Eve, and not the australopiths/habilines, are our actual ancestors. As pointed out by other creationists [e.g., Lubenow9], Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, and Homo neanderthalensis can best be understood as racial variants of modern man-all descended from Adam and Eve, and most likely arising after the separation of people groups after Babel.'

Answer 5

According to tradition, Adam was the first person (Genesis ch.2). See also:

Is there evidence against Evolution

Can you show that God exists

Answer 6

There wasn't just one person that first come on Earth, there was two, a male and a female named Adam and Eve

Answer 7

Adam. Adam was the first person alive on Earth. Our holy spirit ( father , holy ghost , god) made him , along with eve.

Answer 8

According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were the first two people on earth - although there is no explanation as to where they came from.

Answer 9

It was Adam and Eve.

Answer 10

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