Are humans created by God?

Ancient humans were very interested in their own origins and compiled a variety of myths and legends. For example, in China, thousands of years ago, our ancestors had stories about Pangu creating the world and Nuwa creating humans out of clay; in ancient Egypt, it is said that humans were created by the deer-faced holy god Hanum in a pottery-making workshop. They were molded from clay, and then together with the goddess Hatt, they gave life to these clay figures; in ancient Greece, myths and legends say that humans and animals were kneaded out of clay by Prometheus, and then he stole them from the sky for humans. He created fire and taught humans various survival skills.

Michelangelo’s famous painting based on the Bible—Genesis—The Creation of Adam

With the development of human society, these myths and legends have gradually been exaggerated by people for special purposes, becoming some kind of doctrine or doctrine, and making them part of religion. Among them, the most influential in human history is the Western "God created man".

In the Old Testament, the doctrinal classic of ancient Judaism, it is described that God created the world and mankind in 6 days. On the first day, light was created to separate day and night; on the second day, air was created to separate heaven and earth; on the third day, land, oceans, and various plants were created; on the fourth day, the sun, The moon and stars are used to divide the years, solar terms and seasons; on the fifth day, various animals living under water and on land were created; on the sixth day, men, women and various crops and livestock were created; on the seventh day, God was tired , just took a day off and didn’t create anything else.

There is a similar story of creation in the Christian Bible. It says that the world was a barren and barren land just after God Jehovah created the heaven and the earth. So God sent rain to the earth and caused plants to grow on the earth. Then Jehovah created a man out of clay in his own image and named him "Adam". He also created a Garden of Eden in the east with lush flowers and trees and delicious fruits growing everywhere for Adam to live in. Later, God felt that Adam was lonely, so he created another woman from one of Adam's ribs and named her "Eve". Later, Eve ate the forbidden fruit and angered God, so God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden and demoted them to the earth. Adam and Eve became the ancestors of all future humans, and their descendants continued to multiply on the earth. Humanity multiplied a lot, and many people began to fall. God sent a great flood to punish mankind for its sins. But the merciful God felt that some kind people and many creatures were innocent, so he built a big boat called Noah's Ark to save them.

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In the Middle Ages in the West under Christian rule, people believed deeply in the story of God’s creation of man in the Bible. In 1650, an Irish archbishop named James Usher even calculated based on the Bible , the exact time God created the world was 4004 BC. Around the same time, another priest even calculated the creation time more accurately to 9 o'clock in the morning on October 23, 4004 BC!

After the European Renaissance began, people's minds gradually freed themselves from the shackles of Christianity, and some naturalists raised doubts about the teachings of the Bible based on their own explorations. With the development of science, the idea that God created man becomes increasingly untenable. By the time Darwin published his scientific masterpieces such as "The Origin of Species" and "The Origin of Man and His Sexual Selection", although there were still some stubborn theological defenders who opposed the theory of evolution and the idea that humans originated from apes, God created humans and other divine creations. The view of the theory has been fundamentally shaken.

One of the most powerful forces shaking creationism is the discovery of a large number of paleontological fossils and the scientific research on them, especially the discovery of ancient human fossils.

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