by Richard Gunasekera
According to the biblical record, all of the family of humankind (understood as Homo sapiens) emerged from one family. Genesis 1:26-27 and Genesis 2:21-23 records the creation of a man (“Adam”) and a woman (“Eve”). The scientific data points towards a small founding population of humans, quite similar to the size of the human population found at the end of the first ten chapters of Genesis. The discoveries of the mapping of the human genome has revealed the shared inheritance of the human species all the way down to the molecular level in a manner as never been seen before. Scientific theories on the origin of modern man include two hotly debated hypotheses—also called theories. The older hypothesis for the origin of man is known as the Multiregional Theory. The more recent one is best known as the Out of Africa Theory.
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