There has always been a question about the origin of man, if man was created by God, then who created God.
Compared with the 4.6 billion years of life of the earth, the birth time of human beings is very short, and the history of human beings is only one-4600th of the life of the earth.
In nearly 100,000 years, human beings have developed from ru mao drinking blood to slash-and-burn cultivation, and then to the earth overlords who now have many high-tech technologies, reaching the height of civilization that all creatures on the earth have not reached before.
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Humanity's near-miraculous existence on Earth, and even in the entire universe so far, is unique.
The development of this kind of science and technology has exceeded the boundaries of the imagination of the ancients, and even modern people could not imagine that there would be today's development ten years ago, and even imagined that house prices would rise to such an exaggerated point.
Recalling the existence of human beings, it is inconceivable that even human beings themselves are surprised, so from the beginning of human birth, there must be a controversy, that is, whether human beings created or evolved?
We can compare the problem of human birth to the problem of chickens and eggs, that is, if there are chickens first, then the chickens will come, if there are eggs first, where will the eggs come from, and whether there will be chickens or eggs first?
The chicken and egg question, if analyzed biologically, has an answer, that is, there are eggs before there are chickens. A creature that is not a chicken lays an egg, and the egg mutates, and the chicken is born.
One might wonder, so why didn't the chickens have mutations? Because the cells of adult chickens are basically fixed, the newly emerged mutations will not spread.
For example, the mutation of chicken wings will not affect the neck of the chicken. Therefore, it must have been a mutation in the form of the egg, becoming the world's first chicken, at least in the chicken and egg problem is the answer.
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The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle also studied the chicken and egg problem and raised it to the height of philosophy, and he did not give a direct answer, but thought for a long time and concluded that whether it is a chicken or an egg, these two must always exist, there is no who comes first and who comes after.
But this is not to blame Aristotle, who was a philosopher, and secondly because science had not yet developed to its current heights. For natural phenomena or confusion, such as lightning, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc., always find a way to have a reasonable explanation for them.
Faced with uncontrollable and incomprehensible things and phenomena, human beings created a word to describe it, which is God. The appearance of God makes everything in the world reasonable, as if there is light in ignorance.
Since the answer is so clear and biology can explain it clearly, why has it been a long time exploring where humans come from. Several hypotheses have been produced, creationism, extraterrestrial creationism, evolution, and the Big Bang theory.
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In the Chinese creation myth, the universe was chaotic at the beginning, Pangu opened up the heavens and the earth, and sacrificed his body to give birth to all things- "The chaos of heaven and earth is like a chicken, and Pangu was born in it." ”
Please note that this heaven and earth originally existed, not created by Pangu, so where did the earliest chaotic heaven and earth universe come from?
Most of the creation myths, like Pangu's opening of the world, do not explain where the material used to create the world came from, and it seems that the vast majority of people are not more true.
This is because in ancient cultures, no one cared about the origin of matter, and few people themselves would think of asking this question; people were more concerned about the role and ability of the Creator God to make the heaven and earth universe work in an orderly manner.
Theories about the origin of man are hypotheses because each theory has no definite evidence that it is true. This brings us back to the question we asked at the beginning, if man was created by Gods or alien beings, then who created God and alien beings.
Such a cycle would be trapped in an infinite Russian matryoshka doll, where no matter who created whom, there is always a creator. This is why Aristotle, on the question of the chicken and the egg, came to the conclusion that both have always existed, and that there is no one who comes first and who comes after.
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Gods may be products and reflections of human meaning, and their history of existence is probably as long as the history of human civilization. The history of human civilization can be counted from the beginning of human development of language ability, and only when people have mastered language will they begin to think about the question of why there is sunrise and sunset, why there is wind and rain.
It is not difficult to imagine that since humans have been thinking, they urgently need to know how the world works, and at the same time, they have begun to search for meaning.
When a person steps on an ant, he may not care about the meaning of the ant's life, but seeing the death of others will give rise to the question of why people are alive.
If human beings realize that they, like other living beings, live to die, the process of existence will become meaningless, and man will fall into the fear of death, and this anxiety provides the seeds for God.
Evolution and the Big Bang theory also face a cycle, where humans are produced by the Big Bang, and how the Big Bang came about. Human beings are finite and the universe is infinite.
Finite cannot prove infinity, so it is impossible for man to know the whole of the universe, and therefore he cannot prove where it came from.
As long as humans exist, this question will always exist, truly exploring the meaning of human beings. Where did I come from, where did I die, and why did I appear in this world? What does my presence mean to the world, did the world choose me or did I choose the world? (Lu Xiucai said)