Creation

he creation stories teach us that the authors perceived limits to the power of God. In both stories, the earth already existed.

In the first account, the ocean was already present and a wind moved across the surface. The seas rested on the dry land, which appeared on day 3 when God gathered the waters together.

In the second creation account, there was pre-existing dry land, but God had yet to make it rain for plants to grow. God could not even make Adam and Eve out of nothing. He made Adam and each animal out of the dust of the earth. He made Eve out of Adam's rib.

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Yes, it is possible. It is no longer possible to believe literally in the Genesis creation accounts, but they can still be accepted for their religious and symbolic meaning. In fact, attempting to maintain literal belief in the Genesis creation accounts could arguably be considered an exercise in self-delusion.

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Since this question asks for facts, I will ignore the many religious traditions and summarise the facts as we know them:
DNA evidence indicates that our earliest pre-human ancestors diverged from the ancestors of other primates around seven million years ago. This appears certain to have taken place in eastern Africa: certainly the oldest hominid fossils come from that area. The creation of the Great Rift Valley separated our ancestors from other primates to the west of the Valley and provided a completely different environment in which to evolve.

Our early Australopithecus ancestors had small brains but it was already possible to see human traits in their bone structures. Perhaps the first truly human species was Homo habilis, which emerged around 3 million years ago. The species still looks primitive, but the teeth are smaller and the brain is larger and more human-like than in Australopithecines. Homo habilis was probably capable of rudimentary speech. Homo erectusfollowed, around 1.9 million years ago, then our own species, Homo Sapiens, around 300,000 years ago.

Although the early Homo Sapiens were almost indistinguishable from modern people, they lived very primitive lives, differing from other primates in their advanced use of tools and weapons. Their higher intelligence, use of speech and their opposable thumbs were what made the difference. Gradually humans learnt how to control their environments, build permanent dwellings, farm and then develop great civilisations.

There are three major races of human beings: Caucasian, Negroid, Oriental.

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Racial differentiation of the human race is a contentious issue. Some maintain that there are three (primarily based on skin colour) others one (as all human groups can interbreed. The study at the link indicates nearly a hundred (depending how you count subgroups). Compounding this is that the human races (however many thre may be) are constantly intermarrying producing children with mixed attributes set up for "pure" racial streotypes.

Even the old three races grouping based on "obvious" physical traits runs into problems. As an example the dark skinned Aborigines of Australia were lumped in with dark skinned natives of Africa ... but genetic and anthropological evidence puts them as having closer ties with Asia.

Even if it assumed that all humans ultimately originated from Africa, there were several major migrations from that Continent far enough apart that the modern descendants of each exodus were contributors to different "races"

There is little genetic difference between humans. Even on crime investigation dramas no one suggests running DNA analysis to determine race. They look for "typical" bone features and limb lengths to narrow down any racially defined description.

This has been a long term debate for many, many years between those who believe in God, and those who believe in evolution.

According to those who believe in creationism (God), they believeall animals, as well as humans, plants, minerals, etc. were created by God when He created the earth and all that's on it.

According to those who believe in evolution, they believe animals, as well as all of the above evolved over millions of years. They believe that animals evolved as the temperatures and climates changed, which enabled them to survive these changes.

Day by day, God created the universe and its contents (Genesis ch.1).God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30).Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.

• On day 1: God created the universe in general, light, and this Earth. The light was not the same as that of the sun. Rather, it was light that God created before the sun, and which emanated from a point in space without any physical source; like what we might term a "white hole."
  
• On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.
  
• On day 3: God separated the continents from the oceans, and created plants.
  
• On day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars.
  
• On day 5: God created birds and fish.
  
• On day 6: God created animals and people.
  
• On day 7: God ceased creating, thereby creating the concept of rest.
  

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