Where did people originate from?

Answer 1

The Taliban is not a 'people' it is not a religious/political party in Afghanistan as claimed or labled.

TALIBAN simply means STUDENT

Taliban were never know in the west before 9-11. A brief history of taliban is as follows> Sometime in 1999 to 2000 before so called Taliban came in power in Afaganistan the country was ruled and governed by few power full TRIBES of each area. Looting, robbery, rape, bribes were an every day issues for the POOR.

It took a dramatic change when a local girl was raped in day light and when the family complained to the local police station they were kicked out and given more abuse, and at this point the family went to the local Mosque and asked for the help of the IMAM (leader of the mosque). The local Imam together with his students(as know TALIBAN) caught the offenders( the rapist) and they were punished.

Now it was history any person who could not get justice from the govertment would approach the Imam and would get justice.

This justice spread through whole of AFAGANISTAN with in two years of its first case being brought to the local Imam and as from this day the students became to be known as TALIBAN.

A RECENT VISIT TO AFAGANISTAN BY JASON BURKE FROM GUARDIAN NEWS PAPER DESCRIBES HIS VISIT>

'When the Taliban were in power, you could drive all the way to Kandahar [Afghanistan's second city, 250 miles away] with a bag of money and no one would touch you,' he said. 'Now the government are thieves. Since 2001 nothing has changed, except security is worse.'

The only cases that come before Amanullah Ishaqzai, a government judge in Wardak, are those which require an official stamp or disputes among the province's mainly Shia Muslim Hazara ethnic minority, who have historically suffered at the hands of the Sunni Pashtun tribes who make up the bulk of the Taliban. Most of the province's 800,000 inhabitants, mainly peasants, go to the insurgents for rough but often effective justice.

'I can't blame them,' Ishaqzai said. 'A court case in the government system takes five years and many bribes. The Taliban will settle it in an afternoon.'

Every villager has stories of how the Taliban settle the myriad property disputes which mark Afghan society. In scores of cases, Ishaqzai said, he had convened a traditional tribal council with an Islamic scholar as a judge rather than send cases to higher courts. 'That way at least they get a decision,' he said. The clerics involved are often senior Taliban commanders.

It is not just civil cases. According to Mohammed Musa Hotak, an MP from Wardak, the Taliban arrived in a village in the southern district of Jalreez last week, arrested three well-known thieves, tarred their faces and paraded them as 'an example.

A government minister talked of how in his own village earlier this month a shopowner had complained to the Taliban after being robbed and had got his goods back after the insurgents simply circulated a 'night letter', one of the pamphlets that have been the Afghan insurgents' favoured means of communication for decades, saying that they knew the thief and would hang him publicly. A second shopkeeper who went to the local authorities obtained nothing but a beating when he belatedly asked the insurgents' help

Answer 2

The exact origins of humans are still debated by scientists, but current evidence suggests that modern humans (Homo sapiens) originated in Africa around 200,000 years ago. Through migrations and evolutionary processes, humans eventually populated different parts of the world.

Answer 3

So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. -Genesis 1:27

Let me start by saying a few things:

-I am a Christian. I am saved by the blood of Jesus Christ who died upon a cross on a Friday, and rose from the grave the next Sunday. Jesus Christ was an actual man, and we have much more than just The Bible to support this fact. My beliefs regarding creation have no bearing on my belief in Jesus Christ.

-I appreciate the discussion that my last post created. I really do, and some really well-thought out arguments were presented. I got a message from a good friend who simply asked me why I had posted my thoughts on facebook. Here's why: I want people to know that not all Christians believe the same. I have fervent and real faith in the saving power of grace found through Jesus Christ, but I don't believe the earth was made in six 24-hour days. I think for too long, we Christians have told people that you can not be a Christian unless you believe in both of those. That's bullcrap. Christ is what makes a Christian, not creationism. My point is not to convince people who are creationists to drop their beliefs and adopt mine. Instead I want to show the rest of the world that not all of us have a problem with the majority of the scientific community's interpretations of scientific findings.

-Evolution has had some moral implications placed on it that are entirely unfair. Just because someone believes that modern creatures have evolved from earlier creatures does not mean that they believe human beings are worthless. When you classify all people who believe in evolution as "godless" or "humanistic" is to be judging the state of their spiritual hearts. Jesus had a little thing to say about that, brothers and sisters (Matthew 7:1).

A:The question for this post is: How did human beings come into existence? It is definitely a difficult one.

To properly answer this question, I need to point out that this question is not asking "Why" were humans created. Instead, it is asking for a belief regarding the process of their creation. This is once again the difference between science and religion. I believe that science provides better answers for the "How" questions, and religion (specifically Christianity) provides the best answers for "Why" questions.

For example, in Matthew 6, Jesus tells us that our heavenly Father both "feeds the birds" and "clothes the lilies." Now, if I start to explain to you the complex ecosystems that lead to the procurement of the birds' food, am I disproving the work of God? Or if I explain to you the function of chlorophyll or the process of photosynthesis, am I calling Jesus a liar? We allow ourselves to believe that God uses these processes to feed the birds and care for the flowers, yet we are so resistant to any idea that God could have used processes to create anatomically modern human beings.

In regards to how human beings came into existence, I tend to agree with the theory of evolution. There is overwhelming evidence to support the idea that humans evolved from earlier creatures:

-There are literally hundreds of millions of fossils that have been found. These were not planted in the ground by evil communists scientists to throw us off the scent of Jehovah.

-The fossils are not all the same age. Many people believe that all the fossils were buried at the same time, usually during the flood of Noah. However, I have never understood how all the dinosaurs, wooly mammoths, australophithecenes, trilobites, or ammonites could live in the same environment. Nor have I ever understood how all the marine animals could have "drowned".

-I also never understood this: if Noah and his family were the only human beings in the ark, and the rest of the human race was destroyed in the flood, why have we never found an anatomically modern human fossil buried amongst the dinosaurs?

-The dating of fossils has been tried and experimented with again and again and again, and each time it has proven itself to be accurate. Radiometric dating is an absolute dating method, and is the most widely used form of dating for fossils older than 70,000-years-old.

Based on these ideas, I see no problem with allowing myself to believe that modern human beings emerged from the evolution of Ardipithecus ramidus all the way to Homo sapiens.

Believe it or not, evolution only affirms my belief in the divine inspiration of Genesis. If you look at each of the days in the Genesis creation account, it actually follows the form of evolution that most scientists adhere to. Not only that, but in Genesis 4 we read about the conflict between Cain & Abel. Cain brought a floral offering before God, and Abel brought a faunal offering before Yahweh. Yahweh preferred Abel's offering, and Cain killed his brother out of jealousy. What is really fascinating about this is that many sociocultural anthropologists believe that the first conflict between Homo sapiens was between hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists. By looking at human history and comparing it to Genesis, I believe one has to conclude that Genesis is indeed divinely inspired. That being said, I do not believe it gives a complete blueprint for how God accomplished the creation of the planet nor of humanity.

Also, just because I believe in evolution does not mean I view human beings as "just another animal." Human beings have an immortal spirit (Hebrew: ruach) in the image of God (Hebrew: tselem). While I do not believe that God immediately created the physical bodies of humans (rather He used the process of evolution), I see nothing wrong with the belief in an immediate creation of ruach within early Man. When God instilled within this "Adam" a spirit of right and wrong, "Adam" was called to obey it, but instead he chose to act with his own self-interests at heart. And every human (save one) has followed suit.

All that being said, I think it is important to point something out that I did not in my last post. The most intellectually and theologically honest answer to the main questions is this: I do not know. This is what I do know: 1. God made the universe. 2. God made man in His own image. 3. God is good.

If you take anything away from this post, know this: knowing how man was created is not what Christianity is about (Anyone who tells you that is a liar). Christianity is about love. It is about a God who came down to this earth as a Homo sapien and gave His life for the rest of us. That is what matters. However, that does not mean we need to bury our heads in the sand and just scream, "I don't know!" We, as Christians, have got to stop villifying scientists. Instead, if we just calm down, shut up, and listen to what they have to say, we might actually learn a thing or two. And maybe some more people in the world will have more respect for Christ through us, instead of just thinking of us as a bunch of ignorant, science-hating idiots.

Remember: Science answers the "How" questions. Religion answers the "Why" questions.

My beliefs are that God has used the process of evolution to created modern human beings. That is the how.

The why is this: He made us because He loves us.

What is important is not that we agree on how God made us, but that we agree on the fact that it was indeed Jehovah-Jireh who created us. As it says in Psalm 100:3:

Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us, and we are his.

A:In all these contributions it is very clear that some have the idea that if you are a Christian you accept the literal text of Genesis without question and the evidencial basis for evolution, despite th fossil record, radioactive evidence, cosmological evidence, and a host of other reliable sources, are wrong - in favour of what was written in a book

This is clearly absurd, and does more harm than good. The insistence in accepting Genesis as absolutely literal when it itself is full of inconsistency (Which story of Creation is true? Genesis 1 or Genesis 2 - for they are incompatible) has given the arrogant atheist much fuel for his argument - and rightly so. Richard Dawkins is laughing all the way to the bank after his God delusion became a best seller despite its very poor argument and lack of any real substance - and certainly its total misunderstanding of religion.

The fact is that Genesis, though telling a great allegorical story, was never meant to be taken literally - even by the early Israelites. Though it tells of great 'truths' itself it is simply a Hebrew poem which relates the story of humanity and its turning away from God. Even the name 'Adam' meaning 'humanity' was never meant to refer to an actual human being. Nor is Satan mentioned - the serpent is never referred to as Satan.

Humans clearly evolved from other creatures,and it does not make one any less a Christian by believing the obvious. However, the crux of the genesis story is that, whichever method was used, God made us in his image. God is spirit, and therefore we are the sole creatures of his creation (by his own natural physical laws) that has a spiritual dimension. This is what is important. Not arguments over an ancient text, but the regognition that humanity is something special - the pinnacle of a creative evolutionary process that God blessed by endowing it with his own spirituial characteristic. And to me, and millions of other Christians, that is infinitely more awesome that words in a book.

Answer 4

"People" usually refers to modern homo-sapiens. In the existing fossil evidence, there are a number of human like species that preceded the evidence of modern homo-sapiens.

• A 195,000 year old fossil found in Ethiopia shows the beginnings of the skull changes that we associate with modern people, including a rounded skull case and possibly a projecting chin.
• A 160,000 year old skull also found in Ethiopia also seems to be at the early stages of this transition. It had the rounded skull case but retained the large brow ridges of archaic humans.
• More advanced transitional forms have been found in Tanzania dating to about 120,000 years ago.
• Evidence of remains or early modern humans dated 115,000-100,000 years ago are from South Africa and Southwest Asia (Israel).
• There is no reliable evidence of modern humans elsewhere until 60,000-40,000 years ago.

The answer to the question depends on the point at which you (the individual) consider these prehistoric remains to be "people".

Answer 5

All humans originated in Africa. These first humans eventually moved out of Africa and into other parts of the world, populating the entire planet.

Answer 6

Almost every type of hominid, and the human race itself, originated in Ethiopia.

Answer 7

The first people were made by God and then came from there mommies and daddies and so on and so on and so on.........