How humans evolved from animals. Scientists have discovered the secret: from whom the man actually came

The important question of where man came from has not yet found a definite answer, despite the development of modern science. This is one of the most difficult, but at the same time significant and fundamental issues in the modern dialogue of evolution, knowledge, faith, religion and science.

Is man the result of God's creation or evolution? This problem is extremely important not only for dogmatic reasoning, but also for a person, because a huge number of issues that directly affect the worldview of a person are connected with its solution.

The most important understanding of humanity about the essence of man for the majority has remained fuzzy and blurry. But without a clear understanding of the roots of one's own origin, it is impossible to move forward in the right direction, since a person is simply not able to find the right vector of development.

In the question of the origin of man, modern science is divided into two opposing camps, each of which is firmly convinced of its own rightness. One group of scientists talks about the divine origin of man, while others rely on the theory of evolutionary development and genetic modification.

One of the camps of scientists is mistaken. If we consider Darwin's theory in detail, we can already conclude from the name that this is just a version of the origin of man. And the fact that it was massively introduced into the minds of mankind cannot at all be proof of its truth. In the same way, until quite recently, people believed that the Earth was flat and rested on three whales, and people with a different worldview were simply burned at the stake.

On the other hand, the version of the Divine origin is also hardly perceived by a person. Historically, this theory does not have a clear definition, its scope is blurred.

At present, it is impossible to unequivocally answer the question of whether the theory of evolution is true, at least from a scientific point of view. It is not entirely clear why a modern person should treat modern scientific and philosophical teachings as an indisputable truth. On the contrary, he must be very critical when modern scientists and philosophers provide so-called scientific evidence and evidence that speaks in favor of the theory of evolution.

But what is the evidence for human evolution? Probably, everyone remembers from history lessons beautiful, entertaining stories about human ancestors, starting from the time of primitive society. In total, there were about two dozen ancestors. But no real evidence of the actual existence of these half-humans, half-animals has ever been provided.

The scientific fossil evidence for human evolution consists of a large number of Neanderthal fossils, several Sinanthropus skulls, fragmentary finds of Heidelberg, Javanese and Piltdown man, as well as finds on the African continent. All this evidence could fit in a small box. They come from remote areas and, as a rule, do not have exact or even approximate indications of age, not to mention how all these different “people” are related by origin or kinship. Moreover, many of them, as was later established, are deliberate fakes.

If we objectively study all the fossil evidence in favor of human evolution, it becomes clear that there is no convincing or even reasonable evidence for such evolution. Most scientific treatises on this topic are reduced to semi-fantastic conjectures, not confirmed by real archaeological finds or other documentary evidence. However, it is generally accepted that this is evidence for evolution, because people just want to believe it. Of all the fossil finds, only the Neanderthal is genuine, but he is no more different from modern man than modern people are different from each other. But the images of the Neanderthal, which are fed up with history textbooks, are nothing more than the fantasy of artists who are distinguished by preconceived notions of how an ancient person should look like.

Thus, evolution is not a scientific fact at all, but rather a philosophical system. But at the same time, this is a false philosophy, disguised as science to deceive people who are ready to believe in any supposedly scientific fact.

Differences in the question of the origin of man do not find any common ground. But, at the same time, modern science is gradually finding evidence of the existence of the Supreme Mind. It should be noted that at the moment this problem is quite acute.

At all times the prophets spoke about Love, Soul and God. According to them, the Soul is the true essence of man. If a person does not perceive the existence of his own soul, thereby he signs in indifference to himself. Those people who perceive the existence of the soul begin to wonder who created it. And here everything converges on God, as the creator of everything that exists in the world. But, if we recognize the creation of the soul by God, then it is necessary to recognize the Divine origin of man himself.

It must be said that the question of the origin of mankind did not arise at all for the saints and prophets, because they were absolutely sure of their relationship with God. They were all on the same frequency with God, the frequency of Love.

The human soul can also be tuned, like a receiver, to a different frequency. And this is precisely the most important thing that the ancient prophets tried to convey: it is in the transition of the human spirit to the energy of Love that the connection with God is found.

In religion, there is no clear formulation of the position on this issue. Often a person is simply defined as a servant of God. In the same way, a huge number of spiritual practices and religions do not give a clear understanding of the origin of man. As a rule, in spiritual practices there is a substitution of true spirituality, there is no common concept. Based on the name itself, spiritual practices should be based on the word Spirit, but in reality, most of them have nothing to do with true spiritual development and growth, but are engaged in the development of various techniques and practices to achieve the desires of the mind and ego.

Spirituality implies an increase in the frequency of the energy of the Spirit to the heights of the vibration of the fiery energy of Love. Love is the state of the human spirit and its manifestation in the material world. But in the beginning it is necessary to know your personal program - the Spirit, and these are our individual capabilities, methods and talents. The knowledge of one's spirit cleanses the human soul of negativity, after the forehead in a person there is a disclosure of the huge inner potential laid down by the Creator.

The Creator, the Absolute, the Universe, Space, God is Wisdom and Love. All fathers want their children to be like them and have the same qualities, so the accumulation of wisdom and love is the way to God. The spiritual development of a person occurs constantly, but people often do not understand the prompts, as a result of which numerous mistakes occur. Deliberate lies about the origin of man and various religious delusions also contribute to misunderstanding. It is much easier to manage a herd of intelligent animals: after all, some can be bought, the second can be intimidated, and the third can simply be confused. You just need to convince a person of his animal origin.

It is impossible to rule over the children of God, therefore people are deliberately and deliberately deceived. If a person learns about his Divine origin, he will immediately have to completely revise the system of managing people. Based on the foregoing, it becomes quite obvious that people's understanding of their Divine essence will be limited in every possible way.

Therefore, the conclusion is simple - start to know yourself and the essence of things happening around you, not chasing idle and momentary desires, being afraid of everything and striving for stability and carelessness - there is no progress and evolution in this ...

There is a concept that our planet is a kind of practical "testing ground" for growing souls in the Great Universal Experiment. The training conditions in this "polygon" are as close as possible to the "combat" ones. Trainees do not remember their incarnations and existence between lives, and only in the process of successful learning do they begin to acquire such skills. In addition, the existence of rough matter in the world limits the perception of reality by ordinary sense organs, and the development of superpowers is inherent in the course itself.

In our reality, we are left with numerous "hints" in the form of various kinds of "artifacts", the study and unraveling of the secrets of which should help us on the way to awakening awareness and achieving clarity of perception, as well as developing the abilities hidden in us.

Hints of this can be found everywhere - the last Guardians on our planet, before dematerializing their bodies, leaving for eternity, deactivated the reactors, sealed the pyramids, disguised and hid artifacts and libraries, only rebuses remained on the surface of the Earth - puzzles, solving which, humanity will pick up thread of Ariadne and will direct her efforts towards the search for perfect knowledge, harmony and prosperity ...

In addition to external artifacts, the gods hid their presence inside our unconscious. The human subconscious stores information about universal wisdom, where the Gods live inside us, and by opening access to certain information layers of the inner Universe, we can consciously use such an invaluable experience. The technology of interaction with the ancient forces of the planet looks quite fantastic, but who knows what knowledge about the protohistory of mankind will give us...

This means that knowledge of our true history is very important for our development and for achieving harmonious interaction with the forces of Nature. It is not at all accidental that the importance of comprehending the secrets of ancient civilizations that left us signs of their wisdom. We just have to make an effort to comprehend them ...

But to comprehend the "improbable" allows only non-standard, but figurative thinking. It is possible that this is precisely the "key" for moving to another level. After all, our "awakening" and "consciousness" begin with a different from the "official" or "orthodox" view of the surrounding reality. Only in this case can one comprehend the simple fact that you are inside the learning Matrix. The possibility of going beyond its limits is given only by the expansion of the abilities of consciousness, after mastering the appropriate teaching material or information, which is precisely hidden in various kinds of ancient "artifacts".

Good luck to everyone on your journey...

The origin of man has long tormented the inquisitive minds of researchers. For a long time, the main task of anthropologists was the confirmation of Darwin's theory, and not the search for truth.

Whom they just did not appoint "the ancestors of man." From time to time we were presented with the so-called missing link. However, falsifications were quickly exposed, and the question of origin again remained open. But what if there was no transitional link between the monkey and man, and the monkey had nothing to do with it at all? The participants of the round table disagreed.

progenitor cell

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Scientific Innovative Work of the South Ural State Medical University, Professor of the Department of Pathological Physiology Mikhail Osikov convinced Darwinist. The scientist is sure that man, of course, descended from apes:

A huge amount of evidence has been accumulated, which every year more and more confirms the well-known evolutionary theory. Nobel laureate Vitaly Ginzburg was an ardent opponent of the imposition of creationism. I fully agree with the scientist. All these biblical legends, delusional thoughts that there is no evidence of the origin of man from other animals, do not stand up to any scientific criticism. Disputes are provoked by people who simply do not want to penetrate into the depth of the issue. There is a lot of scientific and popular literature about the origin of homo sapiens, where everything is clearly and clearly written. Take any human cell and any protozoan, even a yeast cell. If we transplant our genes into it, it will begin to produce our proteins. This suggests that we all came from the same progenitor cell, the program is the same. I'm not talking about those findings that are gradually building the ladder of our development from the great apes.

We can talk about something with representatives of the clergy, we may have a misunderstanding, but I consider all these conversations meaningless, because faith is one thing, and science is completely different. I respect them, I welcome them, but I demand the same respect for science. Please - believe in miracles, in the one-time origin of a person, but all this is sheer nonsense, which has no actual confirmation.

The theory of panspermia suggests that the beginnings of life were brought to earth from outer space. On comets, they find the simplest organic matter, which can serve as the basis for the creation of living organisms. But this in no way contradicts the processes that then started and that Darwin spoke about. We are not talking about the fact that some complex living organisms were introduced. These could be microorganisms, spores, which later developed and led to the emergence of creatures, including us, in the conditions of the Earth.

Where is their intelligence from?

Head of the Laboratory of Biocenology and Monitoring of the Educational and Scientific Center for the Study of Nature and Human Problems of the Chel State University, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, paleozoologist Leonid Gaiduchenko does not exclude the possibility of artificial introduction of life on Earth:

Until the 18th century, humanity was fully satisfied with the doctrine that everything happened according to the will of God or the gods. But there came a time when that conviction was shaken. Geographical discoveries began, the works of natural scientists began to appear. The accumulated material seems to have shown that man could be formed from what is on Earth. It seems that even a normal logical chain was built, which Darwin well substantiated. His theory of the origin of man began to prevail. And when the great naturalists Marx and Engels started to fuss, the theory began to be recognized as fundamental at all. It really does a good job of explaining a number of points, but the evolution of man does not completely fall into this chain. Moreover, from time to time anthropologists make discoveries that allow us to reconsider or make adjustments to an established point of view. For example, the remains of people whose age is more than a million years have been found. And then it was proved that tools began to be made more than two million years ago.

Many questions were raised by the recent discovery of archaeologists under the leadership of academician Derevyanko in Altai. We found the phalanx of a human finger and determined that the DNA is absolutely unique to these places. There is a similar one only in island Southeast Asia. What is the connection? God knows. But there is a connection. What was ancient paleogeography like? How did you move from mainland to mainland? We often consider ancient people to be underdeveloped and unintelligent, but this is far from being the case. And the more information scientists receive, the more they are convinced: our distant ancestors had a society, and their own laws. Another question - where did they get the mind and knowledge? There is no answer yet.

In Darwin's theory, it is the emergence of intelligence that is the weakest link. As our psychoneurologists and zoopsychologists do not try to give an explanation, not everything is connected in a logical chain. Yes, a chimpanzee can pick up a straw and pick out the larvae. Well, I picked it out and threw it away - that's all. In humans, everything is more complicated. It is impossible to exclude the appearance of intelligence on an earthly carrier. However, it cannot be ruled out that the development of the mind was predetermined. We are accustomed to dividing matter into living and non-living. In general, this is the matter of the Earth, capable of generating life. Why can't the matter of another planet, the same Mars, have these properties? There is a beautiful theory of panspermia, which suggests the possibility of universal life. And then it turns out that rationality is the primordial property of matter. And in this sense, the confession of cosmonaut Georgy Grechko is curious. “I believe that they flew to us ...” - he said in an interview, referring to aliens.

To the theory of panspermia, which originated in Germany in 1868, scientists return from time to time. It really can't be discounted. It's just that in Soviet times it was believed that this theory is deeply bourgeois, and the West is always mistaken. Meanwhile, panspermia was not denied by all, even by our major academicians. Well, how can you deny when everything indicates that such a thing is possible? ... I began to observe the Chelyabinsk meteorite after the outbreak. The trace of the reversal in the dense layers of the atmosphere attracted everyone's attention. Meanwhile, I managed to see that from it steeply upwards, three to four times shorter than the entry trace, there was also an exit trace of one of the fragments. It turns out that when the car broke up, one of its fragments “jumped out”, went into space, and it is possible that it carried away some “earthly particles”, maybe even living ones ...

I do not reject the theory of artificial bringing of life to the Earth. However, for me, all theories of the origin of man are still unproven. Scientists are constantly looking for something, trying to interpret newly found or old materials. Sooner or later, the answer to the question "from whom did man originate", I think, will be found. But even if they do not find it, what will it change in the life of society and each of us? What is love - by and large no one knows, but people do not stop being born. The only thing I am sure of is that life, having appeared once on Earth, in principle, will never disappear. It will only change.

Truth needs no argument

Professor of ChelGU, Doctor of Law, historian Sergey Zharov convinced of the divine origin of man:

Each of us knows from whom a person came, another thing is that we cannot agree. In general, this is not a biological or even historical issue, but a worldview one. To begin with, it would be necessary to agree that there is a person. If we share the point of view about its dual essence - biological and divine, then there are no more questions. And it doesn’t matter at all what kind of creature our biological shell originated from. Darwin believed that man evolved from apes. But this monkey is not there, we cannot find it.

According to divine theory, it does not matter who was the biological ancestor of man. It is important that a person has such features that distinguish him from the entire animal world - a spiritual component and the ability to think. Some animals have this ability, but they cannot draw conclusions, they are devoid of logic. It is not for nothing that man is called the crown of creation.
Each nation has its own idea of ​​where the creature called Homo sapiens came from. According to the Bible, God fashioned man from clay. The Scandinavians once believed that the first person was licked by a sacred cow from sea salt ... Honestly, I don’t care what kind of monkey was our ancestor and whether this monkey was. For me, the purpose of human origin is more important. The mind cannot act purposefully. The Lord wanted to make man the king of nature, the master of this earth. And so it happened. The trouble is that in the end the predator turned out. I like the idea from the movie The Matrix. A person begins to multiply uncontrollably, devours all the resources and then grabs his head. This is how viruses behave. They die out en masse after they have devoured everything ... At the same time, it does not turn out to call a person reasonable.

My thirst for knowledge is not universal. It does not apply to "warts in Brazil," as Mayakovsky wrote. Although this is also important in a sense, because any research, any new fact is a brick in the general wall of understanding the world. However, I am more interested not in the origin, but in the existence of man.

For 150 years already we have been confidently marching towards self-destruction. And the first thing we did was create universal medicine. The same Darwinian natural selection does not work with the human species. And besides this, there is also Christian morality, on which most of us grew up. Yes, all life is sacred. But let's face it. Today, a huge number of people do not have consciousness. They, like monkeys, live anew every day. The Lord could have found some other creature to breathe a soul into him. Simply, apparently, as a receptacle for the soul, the human body was best prepared.

- It turns out that the Lord made a mistake in man? We only consume, but do not create and multiply?..

Why not? Here I am creating. From time to time I create new knowledge, I write books. True, not all of my students are happy about this, because they have to read more (laughs). A serious scientist never proves anything foaming at the mouth, only politicians can afford it or narrow-minded people. No wonder they say that the truth does not need a dispute at all. In a dispute, you can only embitter your opponent.
Theology is recognized as one of the branches of science in Russia. Scientific councils meet, there are scientific degrees - candidate, doctor of theological sciences. But the point is not in the degrees, but in the very recognition of theology as a science. It is she who points out the path from which mankind turned in the last century and is confidently approaching the abyss. But back in the 11th century, Metropolitan Hilarion wrote: the Law was given to the creature in order to create a man out of it, and Grace was already granted to man in order to show him the way to God. Our consumer society is the path of man back to the creature. That is why there is no more urgent problem today than preventing the end of its existence.

2004 is the year of the monkey according to the Eastern calendar. Whether we like it or not, monkeys are remarkably similar to us. True, the similarity is some kind of caricature. Monkey habits amuse people. It is not for nothing that the cages with monkeys in the zoo are always crowded, noisy and fun.

However, the attitude towards them was not always so benevolent and condescending. The German zoologist A. Brehm in his famous "Life of Animals" has the following lines: "Of the ancient peoples, only Indians and Egyptians had sympathy for monkeys. monkeys. They are doomed by God for eternity to bear in themselves a disgusting combination of human likeness and demonic appearance. We Europeans are more inclined to see in them a caricature of a person, and not creatures resembling us in the structure of their body. "

Are these words true? And in general, on what basis did monkeys become our closest relatives?

The 18th century Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus was the author of the first scientific classification of wildlife. He introduced the term "primates", meaning "leading". In this detachment, Linnaeus placed the species, to which he came up with the majestic name Homo sapiens - Homo sapiens. In those days, little was known about primates. It is curious that Linnaeus himself had never seen a live monkey in his life, and his acquaintance with them was by correspondence. However, even then it was clear that primates were at a higher level of development compared to other mammals. But still, doubts about the correctness of the systematic position of man, apparently, did not leave Linnaeus, and he, in the end, singled out the species Homo sapiens into a special kingdom - the Kingdom of Man.

Who, then, was the first to say that man evolved from apes? This is usually attributed to Darwin. But the laurels of superiority do not belong to him. At the end of the XVIII century, the French naturalist Georges Louis Buffon published the work "Natural History", in which he expressed for the first time a seditious thought: people are descendants of monkeys. This caused a sharp reaction of indignation, and the book was publicly burned by the executioner. However, the word about the relationship between man and monkeys was uttered, and regardless of the author's desire, the hypothesis began to gain supporters.

As for Darwin, he was only trying to substantiate the position that there was some kind of link between man and monkeys - a common ancestor from which they descend. It is worth noting that at the time Darwin wrote his work, paleoanthropology, the science of the fossil remains of alleged human ancestors, did not yet exist. There was practically no material for study at that time, and Darwin believed that this was a matter for the future. And then he was right.

In 1856, parts of the skeleton of an extinct humanoid creature, named after the place of discovery, were found in the Neanderthal cave near Düsseldorf. The find became a worldwide sensation. For a long time, Neanderthals were considered our direct ancestors, and some theologians even declared them to be degraded descendants of the biblical Cain. In the same 1856, they found the bones of an even more ancient creature - driopithecus. Further, the finds rained down as if from a cornucopia. It was then that paleoanthropology was born.

The study of bones and remnants of material culture has revealed a lot about these unusual creatures. Neanderthals appeared in Europe about 120-130 thousand years ago. Reconstructions made from the bones give a clear idea of ​​their appearance: height up to 160 cm, rough and thick bones of the skeleton, a skull with a low forehead and a bulge at the back of the head, a roller above the eyes, a sloping chin, but at the same time extremely large, almost like a modern person, brain.

During their earthly existence, Neanderthals changed. But here's what is interesting: their early forms were closer in all respects to Homo sapiens than the forms that appeared later. Their line of development, as it became clear in recent years, did not have an evolutionary continuation, but reached a dead end. These amazing creatures, something, of course, similar to us, lived on Earth for about 100 thousand years and suddenly disappeared. Although some researchers put forward the version that the mysterious "Bigfoot" may be none other than a direct descendant of the Neanderthals, forced out into inaccessible areas with harsh living conditions.

So, most likely, Neanderthals represent a separate evolutionary branch that leads not to modern man, but to an evolutionary dead end. As the German researcher F. Klix wrote: "The path of development ... to modern man, at least in Europe, passed by the Neanderthals."

But if not them, then who?

35-40 thousand years ago in Europe, still densely populated by Neanderthals, new inhabitants suddenly appeared. According to the name of the place of the first discovery (France, Cro-Magnon Grotto, 1868), they were given the specific name Cro-Magnon Man. Judging by the anatomical features, it was a man of the modern type, the first representative of Homo sapiens on Earth.

When Neanderthal bones were first discovered in 1856, society was at a loss. The biblical story of God-created Adam did not fit well with these "monkey people." But the Cro-Magnon found twelve years later gave hope. The oldest man did not look like a monkey at all, he was even called the "prehistoric Apollo" - he was so slender compared to the Neanderthal.

The Cro-Magnons lived in a tribal society. They hunted, fished, collected plants. These courageous travelers reached the cold Arctic regions, having learned how to sew clothes and build dwellings. They made tools that were very perfect for those times, and not only stone ones, but also from bones, horns and tusks. The potter's wheel is their invention. But all these achievements pale in comparison with one more: the Cro-Magnons were the first artists in the world. 30-40 thousand years ago they painted the walls of their caves, decorated clothes, household items, tools with drawings. What has been preserved by time testifies to the highest level of their artistic skill.

So what conclusion about the origin of man can be drawn on the basis of almost 150 years of study of paleontological material? Here is the opinion of the authoritative American anthropologist Richard Lewontin, who writes: "Contrary to the exciting and optimistic statements of some paleontologists, no fossil species of hominids can be considered our ancestors ...". Of course, there are other points of view, but the fossil record indicates that a person appeared suddenly, or, as scientists say, saltationally, with a complex of those physiological features that he still possesses today.

Alas, the possibilities of paleontology were practically exhausted. But if fossils can't tell their story in detail, it means one thing: scientists need to look for fundamentally new approaches to solve the problem. And they were found.

In the 1980s there was a "silent revolution" in anthropology. Evidence has emerged that has radically changed previous ideas about the early stages of human evolution. We are talking about the outstanding discoveries of the young science of paleogenetics. Scientists have learned to extract information from the fossilized remains that belonged to ancient creatures. In addition, it turned out that in the man himself, or rather, in his genotype, traces of the evolutionary history of the species can be found. Alan Wilson, a professor at the University of California, conducted some of the most difficult research. For analysis, he chose the DNA of mitochondria - one of the organelles of the cell. Samples of 182 different types of DNA were collected from 241 people of 42 nationalities. After conducting a comparative analysis of DNA, Wilson came to the conclusion that all of today's six billion people descended from one woman who once lived in northeast Africa. The author of the discovery, which was a worldwide sensation, became the "godfather" of our progenitor, calling her "mitochondrial Eve."

Wilson was also able to determine the approximate time when "Eve" appeared on Earth. "Genetic clock" showed that she lived approximately 200-150 thousand years ago. Surprisingly, "Eve" turned out to be older than the Neanderthal, who was stubbornly imposed on her by the "evolutionary fathers."

Wilson's discovery caused a surge in research in the largest laboratories in the world. And all the independently performed works also spoke in favor of northeast Africa as the place where man first appeared. Later, the French scientist J. Lucott, as well as Stanford University professor P. Underhall, analyzed the male chromosome and confirmed the African origin of "Adam".

It turns out that our ancestors appeared on the African continent about 150-200 thousand years ago. About 100 thousand years ago, their descendants began to spread around the world, replacing all other hominids living there, but at the same time, which is very important, without interbreeding with them. About 40 thousand years ago they reached Europe.

So, the scientific data obtained in the last decade convincingly confirmed what was revealed in the biblical narrative for two millennia: "From one blood He made the whole human race to dwell on all the face of the Earth ..." (Acts 17: 26) - the origin of mankind from one pair of our distant ancestors. But how to reconcile the idea of ​​the creation of man by God with the data of modern anthropology? And can it be done at all? Many scientists answer - yes!

What does the Bible say about the creation of man? This is mentioned twice in the Book of Genesis - in chapters 1 and 2. The first chapter reports the following: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness" (Genesis 1:26). And the second says: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul" (Genesis 2:7)

The second passage shows that man, unlike all other living beings, is created in two stages. In other words, a person becomes a Human only after the grace of the Holy Spirit has spiritualized his physical body.

The Hebrew word for man is "adam". Interestingly, the word "earth" sounds in the same language as "adamah". And this is not just land, the word "adamah" has a number of meanings: "processed, transformed, cultivated land, or matter." In addition, the word "adam" is similar in sound to the verb "adame" - "I will liken." It is this verb that is used when it is said that man is created in the likeness of God. Is it just for the sake of a play on words that these words are used in the Bible, a book in which there is nothing accidental? By the way, the Greek word "anthropos" - "man" has an interesting etymology. The prefix "ano" means "up", "tropo" - "to strive, turn around". Thus, the very name of a person contains an extremely important idea: a person is a creature striving upward, as if facing heaven.

But how, then, to explain all those types of creatures that once lived on Earth, which carried human-like features? It is possible that the Creator, controlling evolution, gradually led them to such a level of development of the brain and nervous system that could ensure the implementation of higher mental activity as an instrument of the spiritual principle. The physical body of a person has been improving for a long time, ripening, like a fruit ripens, in order to give birth to a new life.

Another comparison can be made. When a cultivated variety of a fruit tree is grafted onto a wild game, the graft receives from the tree that has adopted it the strength for growth and development, feeding on its roots, trunk, and leaves. At the same time, the breeder must gradually remove unnecessary wild branches. Ultimately, the shoots of the new variety will become the only ones on the trunk that accepts them - a tree of a new, fruitful variety will be obtained. But no one will argue that as a result of grafting, a cultivar has evolved from a wild variety.

Obviously, something similar took place with the appearance of man. Therefore, on the one hand, we have so much in common with representatives of our class (mammals), but at the same time there are fundamental differences from all other anthropoids that lived on Earth. Man is a new alien in the world. He absorbed everything that was honed by the chisel of evolution and carefully accumulated by nature. He is a precious branch of the evolutionary Tree of Life, grafted by the Creator himself.

Each person at a certain period of his life thought about the fact. Centuries-old attempts to reveal this secret have not yet led to a result, scientists are still arguing on this topic. It is logical that the truth must be sought in the most ancient sources, which are closest to the moment of the birth of life.

Theory One: God Created Mankind

One of the first legends that sounded authentic were the stories that God created people. Many peoples believed that the first were molded from clay. It is not known for certain why this particular material was considered “human”. Most likely, this is due to the fact that clay is a radioactive substance, which is explained by the presence of uranium in the composition, and during decay, it can release significant amounts of energy. The ancestors claimed that this was the energy that was used to create living beings. Legends about the first woman and man are known all over the world.

Theory two: people are hermaphrodites

According to other myths that tell how the first one appeared, they descended from some bisexual creatures - hermaphrodites. Adherents of this theory were the peoples of Africa and Sudan. They believed that the division of people by gender occurred after a huge number of years.

Theory Three: Aliens

Modern versions of how people were born connected this fact with the presence of alien life. People believed that unearthly beings came to Earth and artificially gave rise to life on the planet.

Theory Four: Living Cell

For a long time, many scientists rejoiced, believing that they had solved the mystery of how people appeared on Earth. It seemed quite obvious to them that the appearance of mankind is connected with the formation of a living cell.

They built various models when a living cell was born from inanimate matter under the influence of chemical processes. It was argued that this living particle was in the earth's ocean, which at that time was simply seething with chemical reactions.

Later it was proved that everything necessary for the emergence of life was in space long before the formation of the Earth. Scientists insisted that the appearance of a living cell is a coincidence and unforeseen biochemical processes that explain how 1 person appeared.

However, there were people who actively refuted this version, since the content of the genetic code is an abstract record that cannot be predicted. who first discovered the genetic code, argued that a living cell could not originate on its own. But even assuming that this happened, there is no explanation as to why there was such a variety of living forms that arose as a result of a single cell.

Adherents of this theory, how people were born, cited as an example the development of Darwin, who believed that all life was formed as a result of random and chaotic mutations. As a result of natural selection, forms that were unsuitable and unsuitable for life perished. And those strongest who survived continued to survive and develop.

To date, such a theory of how people appeared on Earth does not hold water. Despite numerous excavations, it was not possible to find a single creature from which another creature could originate. If Darwin were right, now we could observe outlandish and amazing monsters.

The recent discovery of the fact that most genetic mutations have a clear direction has finally disqualified the "chance" theory. And the rest of the mutations, which are caused by disturbances in the body, cannot carry anything creative.

Theory Five: Evolution

The assumptions of this theory are that the ancient ancestors of man were higher primates, or monkeys. The modification had 4 stages:

The shortcoming of this theory was that the scientists were unable to explain in detail how mutations could contribute to the emergence of complex life forms. Until now, not a single type of beneficial mutation has been discovered, they all lead to the destruction of genes.

Theory Six: Hyperboreans and Lemurians

Esoteric history has its own interpretation of how people appeared on Earth. It is alleged that before modern mankind, the planet was inhabited by huge giants, who were called Lemurians and Hyperboreans. However, the theory was criticized, because, according to this, it simply could not be. Our planet does not have enough resources to feed such giants. And this is not the only rebuttal. If the growth of these creatures really reached enormous sizes, they would not be able to lift themselves, and with a sharp movement, the force of inertia would knock them down. In addition, their vessels would not withstand such a load, and the blood flow would break through their walls.

This is only a small part of theories, but practical experience shows that each person chooses a version according to his worldview.

Numerous studies have shown that initially all embryos are female, and only during the period of hormonal changes do some of them transform into a male. Many scientists believe that this is due to changes in the male genotype, which entail violations in the Y chromosome. It is she who determines the male gender. According to these data, after some time the planet will be inhabited by female hermaphrodites. US experts support this theory, as they were able to prove that the female chromosome is much older than the male.

With the help of modern research, a huge number of facts have been discovered, but even they do not give a clear explanation of how and where a person appeared. Therefore, people have no choice but to choose the most acceptable theory of the origin of life for themselves, trusting their intuition.

The origin of man is a mystery. Even Darwin's theory is not considered fully proven, due to the lack of transitional links in evolution. How else do people explain their appearance from ancient times to the present day.

Totemism belongs to the most ancient mythological representations and is considered the first form of awareness of the human collective, as well as its place in nature. Totemism taught that each group of people had its own ancestor - a totem animal or plant. For example, if a raven serves as a totem, then it is the actual progenitor of the clan, and each raven is a relative. At the same time, the totem animal is only a patron, but is not deified, in contrast to later creationism.

Androgynous

The mythological ones include the ancient Greek version of the origin of man from the Androgyns - the first people who combined the signs of both sexes. Plato in the dialogue "Feast" describes them as creatures with a spherical body, whose back did not differ from the chest, with four arms and legs and two identical faces on their heads. According to legend, our ancestors were not inferior to the titans in strength and skill. Puffed up, they decided to overthrow the Olympians, for which they were cut in half by Zeus. This reduced their strength and self-confidence by half.
Androgyny is present not only in Greek mythology. The idea that a man and a woman were originally one whole is close to many world religions. So, in one of the Talmudic interpretations of the first chapters of the Book of Genesis, it is said that Adam was created by an androgyne.

Abrahamic tradition

Three monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) go back to the Abrahamic religions, going back to Abraham, the patriarch of the Semitic tribes, the first person who believed in the Lord. According to the Abrahamic tradition, the world was created by God - Existing from Non-Being, literally "out of nothing". God also created man - Adam from the dust of the earth "in our image and likeness", so that a man would be truly good. It is worth noting that both in the Bible and in the Koran the creation of man is mentioned more than once. For example, in the Bible about the creation of Adam, in the beginning it says in the 1st chapter that God created man "out of nothing in his own image and likeness", in the 2nd chapter that he created him from dust (dust).

Hinduism

In Hinduism, there are at least five versions of the creation of the world and man, respectively. In Brahmanism, for example, the creator of the world is the god Brahma (in later versions identified with Vishnu and the Vedic deity Prajapati), who appeared from a golden egg floating in the oceans. He grew up and sacrificed himself, created from his hair, skin, meat, bones and fat the five elements of the world - earth, water, air, fire, ether - and the five steps of the sacrificial altar. Gods, people and other living beings were created from it. Thus, in Brahminism, by making sacrifices, people re-create Brahma.
But according to the Vedas, the ancient scripture of Hinduism, the creation of the world and man is shrouded in darkness: “Who truly knows who will proclaim here. Where did this creation come from? Further, the gods (appeared) through the creation of this (world).
So who knows where it came from?

Kabbalah

According to Kabbalistic teachings, the creator of Ein Sof created a soul that received the name Adam Rishon - "the first man." It was a construction, consisting of many separate desires, interconnected like the cells of our body. All desires were in harmony, since initially each of them had a desire to support each other. However, being on the highest spiritual level, similar to the creator, Adam took on a huge spiritual light, which is equivalent to the "forbidden fruit" in Christianity. Unable to achieve the goal of creation by this action alone, the primary soul split into 600,000 thousand parts, and each of them into many more parts. All of them are now in the souls of people. Through many circuits, they must carry out a “correction” and gather again into a common spiritual complex called Adam. In other words, after the "breaking" or fall into sin, all these particles - people are not equal to each other. But returning to their original state, they again reach the same level, where they are all equal.

Evolutionary creationism

As science developed, creationists had to compromise with natural science concepts. An intermediate stage between the theory of creation and Darwinism was "theistic evolutionism." Evolutionary theologians do not reject evolution, but consider it an instrument in the hands of God the creator. Simply put, God created the "material" for the appearance of man - the genus Homo and launched the process of evolution. The result is a man. An important point of evolutionary creationism is that although the body changed, the human spirit remained unchanged. This is the position officially held by the Vatican since the time of Pope John Paul II (1995): God created an ape-like creature by putting an immortal soul into it. In classical creationism, a person has not changed either in body or soul since the time of creation.

"Theory of ancient astronauts"

In the 20th century, the version about the extraterrestrial origin of man was popular. One of the founders of the idea of ​​paleocontact in the 20s was Tsiolkovsky, who announced the possibility of aliens visiting the earth. According to the theory of paleocontact, sometime in the distant past, approximately in the Stone Age, aliens visited the Earth for some reason. Either they were interested in the colonization of exoplanets, or the resources of the Earth, or it was their transfer base, but one way or another, part of their descendants settled on Earth. Perhaps they even mixed with the local genus Homo, and modern people are mestizos of an alien life form and natives of the Earth.

The main arguments on which supporters of this theory rely are the complexity of the technologies used in the construction of ancient monuments, as well as geoglyphs, petroglyphs and other drawings of the ancient world, which supposedly depict alien ships and people in spacesuits. Mates Agres, one of the founders of the theory of paleovisits, even claimed that the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed not by God's wrath, but by a nuclear explosion.

Darwinism

The famous postulate - man descended from a monkey, is usually attributed to Charles Darwin, although the scientist himself, remembering the fate of his predecessor Georges Louis Buffon, who was ridiculed at the end of the 18th century for such ideas, cautiously expressed that humans and monkeys should have some common ancestor, monkey-like creature.

According to Darwin himself, the genus homo originated somewhere around 3.5 million in Africa. It was not yet our compatriot Homo Sapiens, whose age is dated today at about 200 thousand years, but the first representative of the genus Homo - the great ape, hominid. In the course of evolution, he began to walk on two legs, use his hands as a tool, he began to progressively transform the brain, articulate speech and sociality. Well, the reason for evolution, like in all other species, was natural selection, and not God's plan.