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WHO WAS ADAM?�FAZALE RANA�

THE BIGGER PICTURE �ON CREATION �

HUMAN EVOLUTION� CREATION MODEL FOR THE ORIGIN OF HUMANS �

CREATION MODEL PREDICTIONS � Traceable to a single

man and a single woman�

 Single location (Eden) �

 Recent origin�

Biblical Genealogies:�

DATING HUMANITY�S ORIGIN�

 Theological purpose� Names omitted� ben and yalad� ~10,000 to 100,000 years ago �

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  Rapid spread of humanity from near the Middle East �

CREATION MODEL PREDICTIONS � SCIENTIFIC DATA �FOR �

HUMAN ORIGINS�

  Extent of differences�  Geographical differences�

MOLECULAR ANTHROPOLOGY �

  Similarities and differences�

Compare DNA Sequences of Human Groups�   Date of humanity�s origin�

  Location of humanity�s origin�  Original population size�  Pattern for humanity�s spread �

Gives �

MOLECULAR ANTHROPOLOGY �

GENETIC EVIDENCE �  Recent (less than 100,000

years ago) �  Single location (E. Africa) �  Small population�  Traceable �

! Single woman�! Single man�

  Genetic diversity�  mDNA�  Y-chromosomal DNA�  Non-coding gene regions�  Pseudogenes�  HERVs �  SINE DNA�  Microsatellite DNA�  Minisatellite DNA�  Linkage disequilibrium�  Human parasites�

HUMANITY�S ORIGIN�  Mitochondrial Eve�  Y chromosome Adam�  Garden of Eden

hypothesis�

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AFRICAN ORIGIN FOR HUMANITY?�

ASSUMPTION: �Geographical

origin has been historically constant �

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  Humanity�s origin is near Mesopotamia�

  No consensus on Garden of Eden�s location�

AFRICAN ORIGIN FOR HUMANITY? �

WHO WERE �THE�

HOMINIDS?�

WHO WERE THE HOMINIDS?�

Bipedal primates�  Animals�  Created by God�  No �image of

God� �

CREATION MODEL PREDICTIONS �Hominid fossils should show us: �

  Biological differences�  Behavioral differences�

CREATION MODEL PREDICTIONS �Sudden Appearance of � Modern human fossils� Human culture�  Spiritual activity�

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Archaeological record��

Human behavior ��

Image of God�

DETECTING THE IMAGE OF GOD �Intellectual Component �

IMAGE OF GOD �

 Technical inventiveness� Rational thought � Symbolic thought � Complex, abstract language� Artistic and musical

expression�

Moral Component �

IMAGE OF GOD �

 Knowledge of right and wrong� Sense of justice�

Spiritual Component �

IMAGE OF GOD �

 Knowledge of a reality beyond the universe �

 Sense of God�s existence� Sense of eternal aspect to the

human spirit �

Relational Component �

IMAGE OF GOD �

 Relate to one another � Complex social structures� Complex language� Relate to God� Religious expression�

Oldowan Technology�2 million to 1.5 million years ago �

HOMO HABILIS �TOOLS��

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Achaeulean Technology�1.5 million to 250,000

years ago �

HOMO ERECTUS �TOOLS��Mousterian Technology�

250,000 to 50,000 years ago �

NEANDERTHAL �TOOLS��

�GREAT LEAP FORWARD�� �Before then, Homo sapiens [not modern humans] was simply marking time culturally. For millennia upon millennia, [they] had been churning out the same forms of stone utensils… But about 40,000 years ago, a perceptible shift in [the] handiwork took place…tool kits leapt in sophistication…Signs of the use of ropes, bone spear points, fishhooks, and harpoons emerge, along with the sudden manifestation of sculptures, paintings and musical instruments…We also find evidence for the first long-distance exchange of stones and beads…It�s an extraordinary catalogue of achievements that seem to have come from nowhere…� �

Christopher Stringer and Robin McVie, African Exodus�

�We imagine that the first artists worked with a small range of materials and techniques, and produced a limited range of representations of the world around them. As new materials and new techniques were developed, we should see this pattern of evolution in the archaeological record. Yet for many outlets of artistic expression -- cave paintings, textiles, ceramics and musical instruments -- the evidence increasingly refuses to fit. Instead of a gradual evolution of skills, the first modern humans in Europe were in fact astonishingly precocious artists.��

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Anthony Sinclair, Nature 426 (2003), 774-5.�

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