I'm just wondering how people who believe in Creationism explain cavemen, or neanderthals? If Adam and Eve were the first people, why weren't they neanderthals? If they were neanderthals, how could God expect them to understand not to eat the apple?
2006-09-07 15:20:42 · 14 answers · asked by cyntharella 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I wonder that myself. History and religion only mesh in the historical fact of how man made religion.
2006-09-07 15:23:29 · answer #1 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most hardcore creationists dismiss neanderthals and early homosapiens as fiction. They believe Adam and Eve were the first humans and that all life on Earth descended from Eden and what was rescued on Noah's Ark.
Being that it would be impossible from all humans on earth to come from 2 people and also impossible for Noah to build an Ark to the specifications the Bible lists to be able to take two of every creature on Earth (let alone the impossibility of a global flood), many Chirstians admit that evolution is how we came about, but that God's hand directed its path.
If Adan and Ever were neanderthals, I'm sure God, being all powerful, could have told them not to eat the apple in a way they would understand.
Thankfully, not all Christians are Creationists. While I still find it a little silly to believe in the Bible God, I am happy there are theists who are at least a little bit rational.
2006-09-07 15:32:09 · answer #2 · answered by Protagonist 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Intelligent design. God got the ball rolling so to speak and steps in and makes changes when He sees fit.
Neanderthals are a dead end hominid species. Neanderthal lived side-by-side with Cro Magnon in Europe and parts of the near east.
Cro Magnon was a modern human and drove Neanderthal to extinction. Cro Magnon was the classic "cave man" who painted the caves in Europe.
But the big problem is this: If Neanderthal was a dead end, where did Cro Magnon come from? According to some anthropologist Cro-Magnon just appeared out of nowhere around fifty thousand years ago.
Intelligent Design by the Hand Of God must be the only explanation.
2006-09-07 15:28:00 · answer #3 · answered by WhatAmI? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe so, yet evolution is the motor vehicle wherein persons have self assurance mankind got here approximately, consequently guy's origins are by way of unintended mutations over tens of millions of years relatively than clever layout with sensible and particular beginning for intelligence, mind, and good judgment. the commencing up of existence in maximum cases is extra of a enormous bang cosmology as against creation.
2016-12-18 06:38:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of the fruit of the garden we may eat...that was the reply.
So they knew and understood the command. Their choice was to disobey. It was not named as "an apple" it was a fruit that was eatable....could have been an apple but the Bible does not say apple. Great question! They were not mindless as many would portray.
2006-09-07 15:31:24 · answer #5 · answered by kdwcnliz2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually Poki Poki, there are full skeletons of neanderthals. For people who don't know, neanderthals were cavemen and a completely different species than humans.
2006-09-07 15:23:11 · answer #6 · answered by funaholic 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Your question is one that many people have debated for years and only research can show what existed. My only comment is to read and search for a true understanding of what was.
I'm a true believer in God and Jesus.
2006-09-07 15:40:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the cave dwellers obviously degenerated quite a bit, after Adam and Eve's time.
2006-09-07 15:27:08 · answer #8 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well it seems obvious to me that our behaviors are so easily explained by evolution. So, I'm assuming the behavior of neaderthals could easily be explained by evolution too.
2006-09-07 15:24:44 · answer #9 · answered by tarro 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God created, and he guided evolution through his mighty hand!
2006-09-07 15:22:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋