did neanderthal man really exist?

Question

if so, was he a son of adam.science has well documented his existence even scientist from the theological school of thought agree they existed. can you explain who right, is neanderthal man a son of adam and why is he not mentioned in the bible or other holy text

Answer 1

Yes, of course neanderthal man existed but he wasn't a direct ancestor of humans. The idea that "God" created man "in his image" can also be interpreted to mean "in his vision" or "in his imagination" (whence the word 'imagine' comes). Judaism teaches that the 'God' of the bible is neither male nor female and in fact has no human form whatsoever, so obviously the verse in Genesis cannot mean that man "created" to resemble 'God' physically.

Why do fundamentalists assume that the other side of the equation in "Science is right" would have to be "therefore God was wrong"? For believers in 'God', wouldn't the more logical conclusion be that those who presumed to speak for 'God' were wrong?

Answer 2

Apparently Neanderthal Man did exist. Scientists have identified some of his fossils.

Why is Neanderthal Man not mentioned in the Bible, or other holy text? The Bible is an outline of God's Salvation Plan for humanity. That Neanderthal Man is omitted from Holy Scripture should tell you something.

Neanderthal was not a Homo Sapien. Assuming that Adam was the First Homo Sapien, then no, Adam was not the father of the Neanderthals. Remember, science has failed to find the 'missing link.'

When has it ever been known that humans birth anything other than humans? Jesus aside, of course, since He was human and also God.

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Answer 3

No one knows for sure. We find fossils but who knows what they are and what the "thing" was!

If the Evolutionists and Geneticists are right, then it's one of those "mutant chimps" which gene changes (that don't seem to be happening anymore).

There's three branches of thinking:

1). Creationists and we all know what they say, God created it all!

2). Evolutionists who say man mutated from something like a chimp and they have genetic evidience that's 99% conclusive, except no chimps are mutating anymore. Why is that? What they spawned a whole flow of mutants that when off and became man and then stopped the spawning? Does it only happen when the Moon is in the Second House and Jupiter Aligns with Mars? Why don't defective chimps who marry their cousins make Cro-Magnin man anymore?

3). Evolutionists who say that a mutatated speices came and continued mutating and died off completly and we were the product that survived, but few of the decesased and lost blood line mutants exist, except for a skull or two that no one can identify.

How does a species that weak last long enough and pass on good enough genes to make us, yet vanish themselves!

There is the fable of Big Foot (the missing link), but Science doesn't accept that concept either, nor the 4th cousin twice removed by everyone:

(Then there is a 4th theory no one except the Lone Gunman want to talk about, and that's that maybe we're a lost space Alien expidition or some type of penal colony left by space Aliens, you know a cosmic Botany Bay.)

Answer 4

Neantherthal did exist, but he is not a human ancestor. He was another type of humonoid species that is now extinct. DNA is what discovered this.

In that case, I don't it's likely he's a son of Adam. That would be why he isn't mentioned in the Bible. He also tended to live in northern climates, like Europe, and the Bible didn't take place there... ever? This source shows people are beginning to think human and neanderthal never even met!

Answer 5

Neanderthal creature likely existed before Adam.

It was not Neanderthal man. No one has unearthed a shirt label saying "Hello, I'm Neanderthal Man."

Neanderthal creature is alleged to be older than 6000 years. Therefore the creation in Genesis chapter one from verse 2 forward is in fact the re-creation. Adam and Eve were to REplentish the earth. It had been plentished before.

Answer 6

The Neanderthal man was a thinking human that used tools, made clothes, etc.
They were a race of mankind.

However, the Cro-Magnon was more advanced, being stock better than us today.

24 Many of these so-called "prehistoric" men were not a "low" type at all. Of those who are called "Cro-Magnon" a university professor stated: "The Cro-Magnon race . . . are conservatively appraised as on a par with the finest stock today intellectually and physically." Another scientist reported: "These men represent in many ways the finest type the world has ever seen." Embarrassingly for those who persist in believing the speculation of evolution, Science Digest (April 1961) said: "Since the Cro-Magnon man . . . the human brain has been decreasing in size." How accurate the simple Genesis account of man's creation, his fall into sin and subsequent degeneration!

Answer 7

I think the neanderthal man actually existed.Scientifically speaking ,they have found skulls and bones of these early species of humans.

I am not a christian but if you read the book of Genesis carefully,you'll come across some facts that there were other men (probably neanderthals ) at the time Adam came to earth.

You don't think the descendants of Adam & Eve married among themselves,do you???

Answer 8

How about the other primates that lead up to Neanderthal?

I think you're going to drive yourself crazy trying to fit the bible and
evolutionary science together at this level.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The true definition of intelligence is the ability to hold two
opposing ideas in mind at the same time..."

You get what you need from both disciplines. Perhaps your religion
keeps you centered, calm and makes you a more moral person.
That's great! Do not expect it to be able to completely dovetail into
the scientific world. It doesn't have to. You don't need it to.

Answer 9

Scientists now believe that modern humans were NOT descended from Neanderthal, that Neanderthal was actually a completely different species.

I, however, think the whole field of paleontology is a monumental hoax and that God's just having us on a bit.

Answer 10

Yes...Neanderthal man was a member of the human race. All living species go through an evolution process: mankind, animals, insects, marine life, even microbial bacteria. Evolution will always contradict certain religious beliefs and even at times, certain religions...and that's not about to end any time soon. But if we look into the history of evolutionary biology we will find disciplines that study the subfield of biology concerned with the origin and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication, and diversity over time. It also generally includes paleontologists and geologists who use fossils and bones of early human species to answer questions about the tempo and mode of human sociocultural evolution as well as human evolutionary behavior.