What is the Origin of Man?

The Answers of Science and the Holy Scriptures

Dr Maurice Bucaille

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Evolution in the Animal Kingdom established facts and 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
     
• Chapter 2. 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
     
• Chapter 3. 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
     
• Chapter 4. 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
     
• Chapter 5. 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