Homo Sapien Religion

Since the beginning of time, humans have been contemplating the idea of where they have come from. All people are entitled their own belief. Some individuals believe they came from ape’s over years of evolving and adapting or that we are all descendants from Africa, while others rely on their religion to guide them in understanding where they come from. Weather a person believes from a scientific stand point or a religious, they both are correct in the eye of the beholder. Anthropologist, archeologist, and other scientist believe that Homo sapiens originated from Africa about 200,000 years ago and migrated out of Africa about 100,000 year ago based on the findings of three sets of human fossils (p. 3). This is known as the “Out of Africa”

This belief argues, “that as early descendants of modern men and women evolved in widely dispersed geographical settings, they took on diverse personality traits and distinctive physical appearances, with the result that they appear today as different ‘races’” (p. 4). This reasoning supports the idea that we did not all originate from Africa but people were settled all over the world. Based on where people lived and moved to determined their “race”, culture, heritage, language, family life, and daily living (p. 4). On the other hand of a scientific stand point of were humans have come from, there are also many religious beliefs and myths that tell where and how humans were

4). The story explains, “that God descended from the heavens in human like form. He became the godlike king Oduduwa, who established the Yoruba kingdom and the rules by which his people were to live” (p. 4). The Brahmanical Vedas and the Upanishads which remain central to the Hindu belief claim that the world is millions if not billions of years old (p. 4). One popular myth that the Hindu people have pasted on for thousands of year is the creation myth. The creation myth is a hymns that is sang during a sacrifice to their gods. The hymn tells of a creature names Purusha, or ‘Man’ to which the sacrifice is made. From the man, he created four different types of people: the Brahman, the Rajanya, the Vaishya, and the Shudra. These four types of people represent, “forefathers of the four castes, or hereditary social classes of India” (p.