Where did primitive people come from and what were they like?
Primitive people are the very first people who appeared on our Earth, people who were the first, that is, our earliest ancestors. Where did primitive people come from? Since the writing did not appear immediately, there are no historical reliable written documents about our origin. The verbal legends that were passed down from genus to genus have been forgotten by humanity or have become so overgrown with guesses, exaggerations or simply fictions that these data cannot be considered historically reliable. Therefore, without a source "from outside" now we can only guess who was our first ancestor, primitive man. The source "from the outside" will be discussed a little later, but now let us consider the guesses of the person himself about his origin.
Humanity has several theories of human origin, which are based on various legends, myths and assumptions of scientists - archaeologists.
Primitive people, theories of human origin # 1 - Polytheism
Even before Darwin's theory of evolution emerged, people believed that the source of human origin was the higher mind, or the "gods" who created it. Briefly about theistic beliefs based on works of art or mythological manuscripts.
The ancient Greek or ancient idea of the origin of primitive people is as follows: "primitive" people allegedly descended from many gods or titans of Olympus.
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In Hinduism, there are several theories of the origin of man: in Brahmanism, the creator of everything is the god Brahma, he is later identified with Vishnu and the Vedic god Prajapati. But in the Vedas - the ancient scriptures of Hinduism, the creation of the universe and the first man is shrouded in mystery.
In the teachings of Kabbalah, the creator Ein Soph created a soul named Adam Rishon - “the first man”, which later split into millions of parts, and each particle now lives in each individual person.
There is also a belief in the origin of the first person from totems, that each group of people has its own ancestor - a totem plant or animal (a kind of patron or later essentially the same god). But the question remains, where did the plants and animals come from?
I would like to highlight one more theory of the origin of man. It is the belief that the descendants of humans were creatures with wings or angels. The existence of these "divine" beings is evidenced by numerous rock paintings. Our contemporaries find giant human skeletons, and attribute their origin to angels, who then stopped visiting the earth, and the giants became extinct. But whether they were our ancestors, there is no good reason.
There are many other theories of the origin of man, different nationalities have their own incredible history of the creation of primitive people. Judging by the variety of theistic versions taken from mythological sources, a person chose what to believe in, how who liked, and not based on scientific historical documents or discoveries, since the concept of science appeared only in the 17-18 centuries.
Primitive people, theories of human origin # 2 - The theory of evolution
The theory of evolution, put forward by Charles Darwin in 1859, each of us studied during his school years. It lies in the fact that man appeared by natural selection and gradual, slow interspecies mutations from a single-celled organism to a complex multicellular organism over millions of years. This theory of evolution took possession of the minds of people who were looking for an answer to the question of their origin without the participation of God.
Despite many significant shortcomings and the absence of intermediate links between different types of living beings, as well as between humans and animals, people happily accepted this version of the origin of primitive people, relying entirely on the opinions of evolutionary scientists who defended their point of view based on “scientific discoveries . But now Darwin's evolutionary theory is smashed to smithereens by a multitude of scientific discoveries made by leading scientists in various fields: anthropologists, geneticists, microbiologists, biochemists, nuclear physicists. Read articles that prove that the theory of evolution contradicts the obvious facts observed in nature and man.
Primitive people, theories of human origin # 3 - extraterrestrial theory
Now no one is seduced by the idea that man descended from a monkey, but the idea has become popular that primitive people are the descendants of aliens, or that man was created by extraterrestrial higher beings who in ancient times visited Earth.
Primitive People, Theories of Human Origins # 4 - Reasonable Design in the Bible
We have already touched upon the theistic theory of the origin of man, but I would like to separately highlight the idea that primitive people were created by the Supreme Superintelligent Person, called the God of the Bible, this is the source "from outside". Why is this version different from other beliefs in various gods? Because we learned about it from an authoritative source, a historical document, a unique Book, the Author of which is the Creator himself, who decided to remind us where we came from and why we were created. And that source is the Bible. Many people perceive the Bible as another religious book, like the Koran or Talmud, which is crammed with fairy tales that cannot be believed, but this is not so.