The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible does and doesn't
say about human origins By Peter Enns.
Enns does not fail in his intention to describe what the Bible does and doesn't
say about human origins.
Not exact matches
If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being
said is that as
human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its
origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy
about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.
For our survival and well - being, Wilson
says, we need a consensus
about our
origins, our nature as
human beings, our place in the natural world and our purpose, or what it is that makes life worth living.
Lead author, Dr Penny Spikins, senior lecturer in the Archaeology of
Human Origin at the University of York,
said: «Our findings suggest Neanderthals didn't think in terms of whether others might repay their efforts, they just responded to their feelings
about seeing their loved ones suffering.»
«There are several untested assumptions
about the
origin of Homo,»
said Bernard Wood, University Professor of
Human Origins at GW, who was not an author on the study.
«The story that the bonobo can be safely ignored or marginalized from debates
about human origins is now off the table,»
says de Waal.
Despite being so closely related on the evolutionary tree, as well as to us, these species differ hugely in the way they use tools, and clues
about the
origins of
human tool mastery could lie in the gulf between chimpanzees and bonobos,» Koops
said.
«What surprised me the most
about the modern
human origins debate when I first started learning
about it is how little people really knew
about what is going on in Asia,» Bae
said.
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origin, development, organization, and functioning of
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