Creation - again!

Last Tuesday I was discussing the question "Were humans created out of nothing?"

The same person who asked me that question also asked "Did humans create themselves?"

This question has a number of facets to it, as did the first one.
Clearly human babies are 'created' by two humans.
Not out of nothing, but out of themselves.

But what about the first human?
It's back to the chicken and egg situation we discussed on Saturday.
Which came first?

But if we accept the evolutionist argument then humans developed incrementally.
There was no sharp dividing line between homo sapiens (present-day humans) and the species which preceded them.
Humans didn't have a birth day - they just faded in without anyone noticing.

The fossil record doesn't show that kind of incremental fade-in.
The nearest predecessors, or less developed man, were Cro-magnon man, and Neanderthal man. These were not present-day humans, who co-existed with both of these types of man. Indeed, some scientists say that present-day humans did not descend from Neanderthal man, who just faded out about 20,000 years ago.

Other research has identified from studies into human mitochondrial DNA that all human females are descended from just four unrelated females at some point in Africa. And studies of male Y chromosomes have discovered that all human males are descended from just one male.

I don't have references for these genetic studies.
I just remember reading the news reports.

Of course, I wasn't surprised.
Those facts have been known for at least 3,000 years!

I don't think present-day man faded in.
Mankind appeared with a bang - although probably not a Big Bang!

We can discuss who came first - the man or the woman - another day!