How many years have humans existed?

Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern Homo sapiens, evolved around 300,000 years ago.
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When did humans first appear on Earth?

The first human ancestors appeared between five million and seven million years ago, probably when some apelike creatures in Africa began to walk habitually on two legs. They were flaking crude stone tools by 2.5 million years ago. Then some of them spread from Africa into Asia and Europe after two million years ago.
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How old is human exist?

The first humans emerged in Africa around two million years ago, long before the modern humans known as Homo sapiens appeared on the same continent.
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How old are humans in the Bible?

According to the aggregated data, 47% of Americans agree that God created humans pretty much in their present form either exactly as the Bible describes it or within the last 10,000 years.
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How far back do humans go?

While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago.
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What will humans look like in 100000 years?

100,000 Years From Today

We will also have larger nostrils, to make breathing easier in new environments that may not be on earth. Denser hair helps to prevent heat loss from their even larger heads. Our ability to control human biology means that the man and woman of the future will have perfectly symmetrical faces.
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Who is the first man on Earth?

ADAM (1) ADAM1 was the first man. There are two stories of his creation. The first tells that God created man in his image, male and female together (Genesis 1: 27), and Adam is not named in this version.
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Which came first humans or dinosaurs?

No! After the dinosaurs died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth. However, small mammals (including shrew-sized primates) were alive at the time of the dinosaurs.
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How many years ago did dinosaurs live?

Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago (at the end of the Cretaceous Period), after living on Earth for about 165 million years.
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Who is the real God?

God has been conceived as either personal or impersonal. In theism, God is the creator and sustainer of the universe, while in deism, God is the creator, but not the sustainer, of the universe. In pantheism, God is the universe itself.
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How long did Adam and Eve live?

According to Jewish tradition, Adam and Eve had 56 children. This was possible, in part, because Adam lived to be 930 years old. Some scholars believe that the length of the life spans of the people of this time was due to a vapor canopy in the atmosphere.
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Who is the creator of human?

The first humans – Adam and Eve

In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve , the first humans God created, disobey God by eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge .
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What year will humans go extinct?

But the general consensus is that it'll top out sometime midcentury and start to fall sharply. As soon as 2100, the global population size could be less than it is now.
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Are humans getting weaker?

Humans are growing weaker, more disease prone, and just might be developing some manners, according to a new study that asserts humans are still evolving according to Charles Darwin's natural selection theory.
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What will happen to Earth in 1 million years?

With one million years and assuming the worst, perhaps all of Earth's land ice will have melted, sea levels will have risen by hundreds of feet, temperatures will have drastically shifted, and what's left of various cities all around the world will have disappeared beneath the waves.
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What language did Adam and Eve speak?

The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden.
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Who Wrote the Bible?

That single author was believed to be Moses, the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt and guided them across the Red Sea toward the Promised Land.
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Is Adam and Eve in heaven?

Adam and Eve were sinners, as are each one of us. If Adam and Eve are excluded from heaven, so are every one of us. But every one of us depends on God's grace to save us.
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What is Jesus real name?

Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.
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What is and where is heaven?

It is primarily God's dwelling place in the biblical tradition: a parallel realm where everything operates according to God's will. Heaven is a place of peace, love, community, and worship, where God is surrounded by a heavenly court and other heavenly beings.
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What's the oldest religion?

It is the world's third-largest religion, with over 1.2 billion followers, or 15–16% of the global population, known as Hindus. The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म, lit.
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Can the dinosaurs come back?

"The problem with dinosaurs is that the oldest DNA that we have in the fossil record is about a million years old, and dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago." This is a problem because while some soft tissues and proteins can be preserved over large geologic timescales, DNA, as far as scientists know, cannot.
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Does Bible mention dinosaurs?

According to the Bible, dinosaurs must have been created by God on the sixth day of creation. Genesis 1:24 says, “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.”
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