What is the origin of man? : the answers of science and the Holy Scriptures

230 Pages·1993·44.576 MB·English

by  Maurice Bucaille

Dr MAURICE BUCAILLE
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WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF MAN?
The Answers of Science
and the Holy Scriptures
By the same author
and publisher
‘LA BIBLE, LE CORAN ET LA SCIENCE’
(THE BIBLE, THE QUR’AN AND SCIENCE)
1st Edition, 1976
9th Edition, 1983
revised and expanded
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Dr MAURICE BUCAILLE
What is the Origin
of Man?
The Answers of Science
and the Holy Scriptures
Translated from the French
by Alastair D. Pannell and the Author
Second Edition, revised
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CONTENTS
Introduction
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I. - EVOLUTION IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM :
ESTABLISHED FACTS
AND THE GAPS IN OUR KNOWLEDGE
The Origins of Life and the Diversity of Living Beings ... 19
The Concept of Evolution in the Animal Kingdom. The
Difficulty of Solving the Problem . ... 26
Lamarck and Transformism. 31
Darwin and Natural Selection, or a Hypothesis Survives
Through Ideology . 35
Essential Features of Evolution that Should Not Be Over¬
looked . 47
The Role of Chance and Necessity .-. 51
The Complexity of Cellular Organization and the Genes . . 57
The Genes: Their Role in Evolution and Other Processes . 66
Creative Evolution. 79
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II. - THE EVOLUTION OF MAN
COMPARED WITH THAT OF OTHER LIVING BEINGS:
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
The Successive Waves of Human Types : From Primitive Man
to Homo Sapiens. 87
Evolution in the Various Human Groups. 95
The Most Debated Origin: The Apes or Their Ancestors . 101
Innate and Acquired Behaviour : A Comparison Between Man
and the Animals . m