Adam said he didn't have anyone to talk to. God said that He was going to make Adam a companion and that it would be a woman. He said, "This pretty lady will gather food for you, she will cook for you, and when you discover clothing, she will wash it for you. She will always agree with every decision you make and she will not nag you, and will always be the first to admit she was wrong when you've had a disagreement. She will praise you! She will bear your children and never ask you to get up in the middle of the night to take care of them. "She will NEVER have a headache and will freely give you love and passion whenever you need it."
Adam said to God, "I bet that will cost an arm and a leg." God agreed. Then Adam asked, "What can I get for a rib?" Of course the rest is history...
It depends who you ask:
According to the Old Testament, Adam was the first person on earth. Then Eve was created out of his rib.
If you'll ask scientists you'll probably get a different answer.
We probably will never know the answer to this question from a scientific point of view, since the emergence of "modern" human beings occurred at least 195,000 years ago in eastern Africa. This has been confirmed by both fossil discoveries and DNA studies on today's humans. This time is so far back into prehistory that it is highly unlikely that we will ever be able to identify the first person on any scientific basis.
Various cultural and religious mythologies convey "first man" and "first woman" stories, which are most likely allegorical rather than historical. However, belief in these stories is widespread, and they provide a basis for many people to identify with their cultural and religious origins.
Adam
There are two different viewpoints – the religious one and the scientific one.
From a religious perspective the Bible tells us that God created Adam from dust, he then took one of Adam’s ribs and from that created Eve. In this context the first person was Adam (or Prophet Adam in Islam).
In some religions there is a different explanation. Hinduism for example has a much more complicated explanation which would have everyone as being created from Lord Bramha (the Supreme One). In Hindu texts such as the Vedas the first people were Yama and Yami.
In science there is no first person as such. All life-forms evolved from the chemicals present on Earth. The nearest answer could be to say Kenyapithecus, this is the common ancestor from which all hominins evolved. Kenyapithecus lived 14 million years ago and resembled an ape more than a human.
There was no definite 'first person'. Evolution works slowly over many many generations. You can have numerous mutations or differences in the same species. For instance, the difference between lactose intolerance and the ability to digest lactose is a mutation in the gene located on chromosome 2 in region 21. Both are classified as human, one just has an extra ability provided by a mutated gene, that being to digest lactose, or milk sugar, after breast feeding is finished. Numerous similar mutations can occur and the product will still be a human. Over time, there is no exact location where you can say "This is one species and this is another" as it usually takes many mutations to form a new species. Therefor we can not say one creature is the first of any type.
A species is determined by the ability to reproduce. In order for a species to continue existence the species must be able to reproduce. We can actually see the changes and adaptions that have occurred throughout time if we look at what are termed ring species. These are species that were, at one point, the same. A split then occurred due to some obstacle such as a mountain or something similar. One group moved up one side of the obstacle while another group moved up the other. They are separated so they can not interbreed with one another and will go through their own evolutionary path dependent on their environment.Through time each of the subspecies on either side mutate and evolve and eventually when they do meet on the other side they can not interbreed with one another due to genetic dissimilarities. Examples of this include the Larus Gull and Ensatina Salamanders. Sure they are both still gulls and salamanders but they are genetically different in that they can not interbreed. The two end points, however, can still interbreed with every subspecies median point. They just can not interbreed with each other. Increase this time period to thousands or millions of years and you get rather vast changes but you can not pinpoint where exactly one species turned into another.
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.to...
There has been work done on when the last person was alive that was related to all humans on the face of the Earth though. The female form of this is known as Mitochondrial Eve, who lived about 200,000 years ago, and the male form is known as Y-Chromosomal Adam, who lived about 50,000 years ago. Modern humans, though, or Homo Sapiens, are about 200,000 years old. Humans that pre-existed modern humans, such as Homo Erectus, Homo Habilis, Australopithecus Afarensis, and so on go back millions of years.
Sagebrush: You're as ignorant about evolution as you are about global warming. there does not need to be a 'first person' The original forms of life were singled celled organisms capable of separating. Of course what matters is what you label an 'organism'. And you are getting your 'recorded history' from the bible. You're the most scientifically illiterate person in this section followed closely by Maxx. You don;t even know what I posted above. You are completely ignoring it. Use some common sense and some logic.
And Maxx seems to be behind the times just a tad. http://www.abenteuer-universum.de/pdf/mi...
and we can see the evolution of the horse over millions of years.
https://www.amherst.edu/museums/naturalh...
Maxx: I've demonstrated that yes, indeed, it can work, and actually just recently, within the past few weeks, they have done more tests and they have found that yes, indeed, amino acids can form.
http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage...
And your statement about George Simpson is false. He was the originator of what is now termed punctuated equilibrium.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/bi...
He is not a creationist and he still acknowledges the reality of evolution. Or at least he did until his death.
If you are a Christian, of course Adam Other religions would have a different. So do as google for "first person on Earth" and see what comes up
Adam
-----------------------
Macro-evolution simply didn't happen, there is no support for it in the fossil record.
If the secret of life was so simple that it could happen by accident, man would have discovered the process for creating life long ago. And where do we see a building-up of complex information without a mind to drive it?
Amino acids... 22 of them in life... the odds are about 10 to the 86th power for one of them to come together by itself, which is a bigger number than the estimate for all the atoms in the universe.
Biogenesis is the law, not abiogenesis.
-----------------------
Jeff M - The popular story behind horse evolution was debunked by George Gaylord Simpson, perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century. He dispelled the myth that the evolution of the horse was a linear process culminating in the modern Equus caballus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._G._Simps...
The biologist Heribert-Nilsson said, ‘The family tree of the horse is beautiful and continuous only in the textbooks,’ and the famous paleontologist Niles Eldredge called the textbook picture ‘lamentable and ‘a classical case of paleontologic museology.'
-----------------------
Adam
Trevor is right: <. Kenyapithecus lived 14 million years ago and resembled an ape more than a human.> and its descendants all became greenies, but alas they still are not human.
There has to be a first person. Anyway you look at it, there has to be a first person. Recorded history shows this to be Adam. Can anyone here beat out recorded history?
Oh! Look at that. Jeff M is smarter than recorded history. Ha! Ha! He's so smart he believes in global warming but there is some missing heat. In evolution there is the missing link. Ha! Ha! There is always something missing. (And I think it is in his head.) Ha! Ha! There has to be a first person. Even if the Evolution theory were true there would be that first 'person'.
Nog Udderhead, and his wife Jessica.
We know this because he carved NOG + JESS 4EVA in a mastodon bone and later went on to form granite rock band 'Thump with Heavy Stick'.
It was Kilroy followed closely by a miserable thick as the proverbial traffic warden,when the traffic warden realized that there were no cars to book she drew one on the wall which Kilroy was peeping over and booked that
A cute little monkey named Adam that used his tail to swing thru the branches.
Adam.
My wife is the first and only.
ADAM
according to our evolutionist/warmunist global warming buddies on here it was Mr. Rat or was it Mr. Mouse
