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Chapter Five Anthropology - The Origin of Man
A n t h r o p o l o g y i s t h e s c i e n c e t h a t d e a l s wi t h ma n , s p e c i f i c a l l y h i s origin, development, and culture. There are two classes of anthropology; biblical and scientific. Biblical (theological) anthropology deals with the study of the man in the light of
God's Word. Scientific anthropology deals with the psychophysical part of man in relation to natural history. Scientific anthropology deals with broad numbers, subjects, and related topics that are addressed from different view points. For example, naturalists embrace the natural history of the human race. Philosophers embrace the psychology, sociology and ethical part of the human race together with the anatomy and physiology.
The subject of anthropology in this study will cover such topics as the ori ginofman,theunityoftherace,thefallofman,andtheconsequencesof is fall according to God's Word.
5.0 Divine Creation by God
Evolutionists differ on many things but all confer that man evolved matter. In Henry Thiessen's book on Systematic Theology, page 151, he Pope Pius XII in his Encyclical Human Genesis (1950): "The ^ church leaves the doctrine of evolution an open question, as long as i fines its speculations to the development of other living matter a existence, besides the human body." Even today, many Christians adhere to the evolution theory with divine creation as its foundation.
• c that man Concerning genetics, evolutionists try to prove their theories
evolved from single-cell amoebae, yet in fact, there is no evidence o ory. First, it is acknowledged that a small mutation within a take place. However, genetics test of the fruit fly have proven crossing over between the species (Genesis, Chapter 1). Man is formedspecies. Hedidnotevolvefromabeast,butisthedivine God.
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