When we surrender ourselves to an anesthesiologist, allowing them to render us completely unconscious, and when we accept a surgeon cutting open our abdomens and chests and administering medication, we often do so because we trust in the advances of science.
This same trust leads us to board an airplane - that enclosed metal box - and ascend tens of thousands of feet into the air to transport us to distant lands. Science itself tells us that the age of the Earth is estimated at approximately 4.5 billion years. Science tells us that early humans walked on all fours and that they began walking upright, distinguishing themselves from the great apes around 6 to 7 million years ago, based on the oldest clear fossil evidence. New fossils dating back about 2 million years from that era have been discovered, providing even clearer evidence of the increasing capabilities of humankind.
The most famous example is the fossil of “Lucy,” discovered in Ethiopia, who lived approximately 3.2 million years ago. Her skeleton clearly demonstrated an adaptation to upright walking. Based on the fossil record, including the skulls and skeletons that have been discovered, the evolutionary path can be summarized in approximate chronological order. Humans began with a small brain and the ability to climb trees. Then came Homo habilis, which is credited with crafting primitive stone tools. Next came Homo erectus, which emerged about two million years ago and became one of the longest-surviving human species. They were the first to leave Africa, the original homeland of humans, and spread to Asia and Europe.
They mastered fire and crafted more sophisticated stone tools. Their brains were larger than those of their ancestors, and their skeletons were closer to those of modern humans. Then came Homo heidelbergensis and its relatives, dating back approximately 300,000 to 700,000 years. They are considered a possible common ancestor of both Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens. Neanderthals lived in Europe and became extinct about 40,000 years ago. Then came the Denisovans, a recently discovered human group identified through DNA extracted from bones found in a Siberian cave. They interbred with modern humans before eventually becoming extinct. Modern Homo sapiens finally appeared, first in Africa around 300,000 years ago, based on skull discoveries in Morocco in 2017.
This discovery revised the previous timeline, which had suggested that the great migration out of Africa began around 60,000 years ago and gradually led to the colonization of almost the entire world. By approximately 40,000 years ago, our species was the only human species remaining on Earth following the extinction of all the others. Scientifically documented fossils have revealed significant differences in head size, arm and leg lengths, and height between the successive stages of human evolution.
Based on this brief yet highly complex scientific narrative, someone who calls himself an “Arabic linguist” confidently and insistently claims to have proof that the Arabic language was born with the creation of Adam. He asserts that the name “Adam” has no meaning, derivation, conjugation, semantic basis, plural, or dual form except in Arabic, despite the word itself existing in every other language in the world. Everyone is entitled to say what they want. The problem is not what is said, but what is published. The problem is that millions of people - the naive, the educated, and even professors - are willing to believe such claims, despite their contradiction with established scientific facts. The same applies to many other fantastical claims.
By Ahmad alsarraf
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