Has evolution facts destroyed Adam? - Religious Education Forum

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Hi All As a sikh I don't believe in Adam, there is only one reference of Adam in sikh scriptures but only as a reference point. But I know a lot of other religions have the belief that god created Adam with its own hand and that he was the first human being ever. This belief certainly doesn't go with evolution and the evidence is so strong for evolution that u simply can't reject it. Where does this leave the beliefs and how do they contradict with evolution? I read a lot and watched some debates regarding this and everytime evolution comes on top. Keep religious beliefs aside, do u think that science has destroyed So called image of Adam ?

I think you will change your opinion as you look into the etymology of the word Adam:Adam
masc. proper name, Biblical name of the first man, from Hebrew adam "man," literally "(the one formed from the) ground" (Hebrew adamah "ground"); cf. Latin homo "man," humanus "human," humus "earth, ground, soil." To not know (someone) from Adam "not know him at all" is first recorded 1784.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=AdamMeaning and etymology of the Hebrew name Adam

Adam

Traditionally, Adam is the first human male (Genesis 2:20), but here at Abarim Publications that tradition is under attack. See the name Eve or the article on The Chaotic Set Theory.

Adam is one of five words that indicate a man (words like dude, guy etc). This particular word indicates man as a being created from material; a corporeal one, as probably opposed to the non-corporeal angelic creatures who were created before Adam and who shouted for joy during the creation of the earth (Job 38:7).

The name Adam is the masculine derivation of the Hebrew root ('dm and 26). The feminine derivation (adamah) indicates the ruddy earth found in the Middle East and means acre, ground, land.
The words (adom, adem) indicate the typical red color of that earth.

The name Adam means Earthling, or rather Corporeal One.

Other names from this same stock are , Edom - the nickname of Esau - which also meaning red, ruddy, and Admah.

Other names that have to do with words that mean man are Enosh (Mortal), Gabriel (God's Guy), Methushael (Man Of God) and perhaps Zechariah (YHWH's Male) and Ishi (My Man).

A name that may be a playful reference to the name Adam is Javan, Mud Man.

http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Adam.html

The first human being that got evolved in millions of years was a man; so he was named for his attributes, distinctively different from the other animals, as man or Adam.
I think science and the truthful revealed religions don?t differ with one another, science looks into man?s material and physical development while revealed religions go beyond it and they include in it man?s capabilities in ethical, moral and spiritual without which man would hardly be above the animals.

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