God made Adam and Eve, so where do the neanderthals fit in?

Question

We are tought in school that humans came form apes/neanderthals/Homo sapiens. But what about Adam and Eve......they evolved from neanderthals? God made man/woman, why does school teach us that we evolved from apes or whatever?
thanx!

Answer 1

They don't.

And that is why people choose not to believe in the Bible.

As for why schools don't teach what the Bible teaches, it is because many things in the Bible have been disproved by scientific discoveries, and that's also why people have responded to this as that "Adam and Eve are symbolic figures" and whatnot. Such a belief has only stemmed from the fact that Adam and Eve do not fit in the current society's intellectual advancements, causing Christians to pick and choose what to call symbolic/metaphorical and what to call literal/factual.

Schools choose evolution over intelligent design because there is scientific evidence/proof in favour of evolution, and none in favour of intelligent design. It's as simple as that.

Answer 2

This is not an answer, just a concept...I heard someone talk about an interesting spin on this once - that perhaps the lower primates were in fact descended from a common ancestor with us - Adam and Eve - and had de-volved rather than us having evolved...loss of genetic info, mutation, too much inbreeding of the original stock, you'll notice that in the Bible, and in many ancient cultures, that there was a time when familial intermarriage was not as taboo. That is to be expected with a deeper gene pool, and is the same in dog breeding; you can mate within the same litter, but do it too often and you get problems (or pugs) from the original pure wolves from which all dogs are descended - haha.
By the way - did you know that the Satyr (that lecherous ape) was considered to be a parody (satire) of humanity (as the orcs of Tolkien were to the elves)

Answer 3

The Creation of the world as it is presented in Genesis is a childish story not meant to be interpreted literally, it is a paradox. The Bible is not a history book. Ideas, emotions and natures process have been presented as people with names, a very old metaphoric style of writing. Ignorant or ill intention people have made the world believe the wrong ideas. I grow up in a Catholic school and I was always very skeptical at the fact the two person in Paradise were two modern blond with blues eyes men and women, and it was not to difficult to discover to what group of people the Bible was suggesting they belong to. The Bibles traces to Adan and Eve even Jesus who was supposed to be Jewish, as well all the prophets in the old testament. Some day in the future the Bible and other books like it, they will be seen as nothing more than fairy tales with some important moral for human life. Just think of it, had mankind kept faithful to literal Biblical interpretations and not allowed his thought and his science to evolve, we'd still be at the mercy of the horrible and abusive obscurantism of the middle ages. Religions and they traditional tales to be valid most evolve as mankind evolves. It is irrational to ask civilized peoples to believe thing in the same way they were accepted thousand of years ago. Today we need a new aproach to the same ideas. This is suposed to be the true job of the messiah weather he is a real person, a whole group of people, a new science, or a new body of knowledge. Who knows!

Answer 4

Adam and Eve were not "real people." They are just part of the fable used by the ancient Jewish people to try to explain the world as they knew it. I don't mean to "talk ugly" about your religious beliefs, but you need to widen your thought processes. And evolution does not teach that we evolved from apes. It only claims that apes and man descended from a "common ancestor." There is a big difference.

Answer 5

Darwin's theory suggests existence of evolution on a level of a mind and body and that fit most linear logic of science, although there is a lot of gaps in that theory...Scripture suggests that there is not such a thing as evolution.... Both might be wrong...but for now, both , religion and science in silent denial of each other...To teach at school Bible and Darwinism simulteniously would discredit educational system, for students will ask a serious questions and teachers cannot provide an answer, only accusing other party of being wrong....what a fun...

Answer 6

Personally I don't think the story of Adam & Eve is meant to be taken literally! If so, it's a frightening prospect since we'd all be the products of inbreeding (& how exactly did Adam, Eve, Cain & Abel populate an entire planet? I shudder to think of it!) It was written for simple people who would not have been able to comprehend a lot of scientific facts which we now take for granted. Things had to be revealed to people in ways that they could understand. Even if you subscribe to evolution, the big bang, whatever strictly scientific explanation you like for the origin of the universe there is still a gaping hole: first cause. WHO or WHAT started the big bang, creation, the beginning of everything? Something started the ball rolling so to speak. Some miraculous being or event occurred to create something out of nothing. Something was the first cause that brought everything into being. I believe it was God. If you don't like the name God (or Allah or whatever works for you) then call Him "it" or "first cause" or the great being or the great something that was able to create out of nothing. I don't think the world was literally created in 7 days & that there were literally 2 people that populated the whole planet. I don't know if there literally was an ark large enough to house 2 of every conceivable creature....but I believe in God, I believe that these parables were meant to illustrate God's existence, His love for us & the origin of all things. I believe this. I have faith. I am still open minded & I certainly listen to other viewpoints but I feel it in my gut. Faith is something you either have or you don't. I don't think you can convince an atheist that God exists anymore than you can teach a person without rhythm how to dance well or teach a tone deaf person how to sing beautifully. It just isn't there. We all believe what we believe.

If you do have faith, don't let it be shaken by doubts. Science & religion can coexist (& must because there are holes in both).

The Bible doesn't mention dinosaurs, other planets etc. That doesn't mean they didn't exist. It doesn't mean that the Bible is a lie. You have to understand the people that it was written for. Imagine trying to explain to simple people that one day we would be driving in cars, flying planes, holding little computers in our hands. It would have been mind-boggling & frightening. They couldn't have wrapped their brains around it. I've heard that you should be careful overexposing or overstimulating babies with too much sensory data because their brain can be overloaded trying to take it all in. Some people become colour blind because they were exposed to too much colour too early as infants. When society was in its infancy, God had to speak to people in terms they would understand. We have advanced a great deal since then, but there is still so much we might do. Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact. We can't know everything. This is what the story of Adam & Eve was saying: too much knowledge is dangerous. It's a burden. Better to be innocent in paradise. So there was a hidden message there, hinting that there is more than we know, more than we may ever know & don't be too anxious to overstep our bounds...

Answer 7

Genesis 1 or maybe even before it, Adam and so on were in Genesis 2.

School teached that we evolved from apes or whatever since they are required to teach secular religious teachings, however more schools are banned to teach Theistic religious teachings.

Answer 8

Because it's true. God did not make people. They evolved from chimps. Adam and Eve are just a story from the bible.

Answer 9

Because we don't need to explain things we cant understand through religion any more.

How old does the bible say earth is? How old is it, really.
Does the universe revolve around the earth?

the only thing religion is good for is teaching people respect and ethics.

Answer 10

There is no proof that what scientists refer to as Neanderthals were anything other than purely human. Like the entire evolution theory, it is based on a false supposition.