The Origin of the Human Species

Term Paper # 23302

Anthropology > Scientific / Medical
Philosophy > Science
Religion and Theology

This paper discusses the different arguments on the subject of how human beings were created.

3,115 words () | 4 sources | MLA | 2002 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses man's fascination for knowledge on the origin of the human species. Until the seventeenth century, nobody questioned the belief that God created Man; but from that time on, philosophers began musing that perhaps there was a different explanation. The controversial debate regarding the truth in Charles Darwins' theory on evolution continues to this day. The paper discusses theories of different experts in the field on both side of the evolution argument, such as followers of the Teleology and Intelligent Design movements. In conclusion, the author of the paper argues in favor of the evolution theory.

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"Teleology is the belief that, in the beginning, everything was created so that life could exist. Life itself was not created, but everything else was created so that life could come about. A well-known believer of teleology is Gerald Schroeder. In his book, The Science of God, he compares scientific creationist's to Darwinian evolutionist's belief of the chronology of time using Einstein's Law of Relativity. Both scientific creationists and Darwinian evolutionists believe in the same order of time. They both believe that first the universe was created, followed by the arrival of water, land and first life, then the visibility of the stars, sun and moon, then the arrival of the first multi-cellular animals and winged insects, and ending with the first animals, mammals and humans."

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The Origin of the Human Species (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-The-Origin-of-the-Human-Species/23302