The two most prevalent religion of the world i.e. Christianism and Islam teach that man’s origin was Adam followed by several prophets who were all descendents of Adam. These religions do not tell us of any evolution of man over centuries and assumes that mental capacity and culture of man has always been same. i.e. tha man living at the time of Adam appears similar in characterstics as a modern man. Although it is impossible to quantify how long ago Adam has lived.
On the other hand, scientific knowledge, specifically, paleontology tells us by examination of fossils, skulls and bones found and by their radioactive nuclear studies that man lived millions of years ago was completely different in structure, limited mental capacity and culture.
To summarize, scientific discovery of ancient man and their characterstics;
1)4.4 to 4.5 million years old: oldest man known to live
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3.5 million years old: small brain, small teeth
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1.6 to 2.4 million years old: first man known to use tools
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200K to 300k years old: similar to humans in features.
It has been scientifically proven that earlier humans(more than one millions years old were not only dissimilar to modern man in physical features but also they had very limited mental capacity and their life style was not much different than animals.(I am not discussing evolution of man from monkeys. It is a different topic).
Question is, Where do we fit the humans who lived more than a millions years ago, who were more similar in every aspects to animals with extrememly limited and abstract mental capacity into the history of man(which starts from Adam and has no mention of any evolution) as presented by Bible and Koran??
Belief is not what mind possesses, it is what possesses the mind!