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

This is the English translation of the original French work by Dr Maurice Bucaille titled L’homme, d’où vient-il?: Les réponses de la science et des Écritures saintes (Paris: Seghers, 1981). It was translated into English from the original French by Alastair D. Pannell and the author himself.religion, science, evolution, biological evolution, Islam, Quran, Qur'an, Qur'ān, Qur’ān, Koran, human fossils, fossils, hominid, hominids, hominoid, hominoids, pongid, pongids, Homo sapiens, Zakir Naik, Bible, Darwin's letter, Qur'an on evolution, evolution vs. creation, chance, necessity, On the Origin of Species, dogma, dogmatism, Bucaille, Bucaillism, Bucailleism, Maurice Bucaille, Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Darwin, Charles Darwin, Lamarck, Lamarckism, Pierre-Paul Grassé, Pierre-P. Grassé, P.-P. Grassé, P. P. Grasse, Grassé, Grasse, creative evolution, common descent, origin of life, origin of man, natural selection, human evolution, origins of life, Oparin, Oparine, A. I. Oparin, Darwinian evolution, human origins, science vs religion, religion vs science, evolutionary theories, chance and necessity, Qur'an vs science, science vs Qur'an, holy scriptures, religious scriptures, revealed religions, holy books, religious books, modern science, zoology, apes, descent from apes, J. Monod, Jacques Monod, atheism, materialism, naturalism, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, The Blind Watchmaker, Creation–evolution controversy, criticism of evolution, objections to evolution, creation vs. evolution, theistic evolution, creation science, neo-creationism, intelligent design, creationism, morality, God, Deity, monotheistic religions, palaeontology, paleontology, molecular biology, scientific fact, supernatural, education, orthogenesis, Islamic views on evolution, Muslim views on evolution, scientific method, watchmaker analogy, watchmaker argument, DNA, genes, genetic code, enigma, scientific enigma, RNA, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, common ancestry, chance origin of life, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Meyer, Claude Tresmontant What is the Origin of Man?: The Answers of Science and the Holy Scriptures Front cover Half-title Title page Copyright page Contents Introduction I—EVOLUTION IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: ESTABLISHED FACTS AND THE GAPS IN OUR KNOWLEDGE The Origins of Life and the Diversity of Living Beings The Concept of Evolution in the Animal Kingdom. The Difficulty of Solving the Problem Lamarck and Transformism Darwin and Natural Selection, or a Hypothesis Survives Through Ideology Essential Features of Evolution that Should Not Be Overlooked The Role of Chance and Necessity The Complexity of Cellular Organization and the Genes The Genes: Their Role in Evolution and Other Processes Creative Evolution 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 Evolution in the Various Human Groups The Most Debated Origin: The Apes or Their Ancestors Innate and Acquired Behaviour: A Comparison Between Man and the Animals The Influence of Creative Evolution in Man’s Development III—THE FIRST ANSWER OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES: THE BIBLE The Need to Know the Origin and History of the Texts Modern Approaches to the Books of the Bible The Creation of Man According to the Bible: The Narratives and Their Context IV—THE ORIGIN, TRANSFORMATIONS AND REPRODUCTION OF MAN ACCORDING TO THE QUR’AN Preliminary Notions on the Qur’anic Text, Its History and Contents The Origin and Perpetuation of Life The Origin of Man and Transformations of the Human Form Over the Ages Human Reproduction: Its Effects Upon Transformations in the Species V—THE COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE The Many Approaches to the Question The Difficulties Encountered The Concept of Creation and Science Evolution in the Animal Kingdom and the Transformations of the Human Form Cellular Organization and the Origin of the Genetic Code: A Scientific Enigma The Evolution of Living Beings, a Special Case Within the General Evolution of the Universe The Compatibility Between Religion and Science Index of quotations from the Qur’an Back cover Man has pondered his origins for thousands of years, but until recently, his only source of ideas consisted of notions drawn from religious teachings and various philosophical systems. Not until modern times, and the arrival of data of a different kind, has he been able to approach the problem of his origins from a new angle. From the Author of The Bible, The Qur'an and Science