if so, were they Neanderthals?
2007-10-02 09:32:24 · 13 answers · asked by TriSec 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, of course not (to both questions).
2007-10-02 11:22:18 · answer #1 · answered by I, Sapient 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No and No.
Adam and Eve could not have populated the earth to the 6 billion people it houses today. Mathematically, it is impossible.
Also, Neanderthals are not a part of today's human evolution or at least that is the current theory because they have compared the DNA of Neanderthals to the humans of today and found little to no comparison and certainly not enough comparison to acknowledge that Neanderthals are our evolutionary ancestors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_interaction_with_Cro-Magnons
2007-10-02 09:40:12 · answer #2 · answered by Allison P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Allegorically from the biblical account, yes. (And by the way the surviving brother according to biblical account married a gal from the land of Nod, so where did she come from?). Why allegorically? A genetic pool of two is insufficient for survival. the genetic recessives would be expressed with in a few generation. Mitochondrial DNA inherited from the maternal side in theory could be the same DNA as the earth mother given a linear line of female decendants. Lots of recessives in the human genome. The only survivable scenario for the human race is one where there was a significant group of early humans. A single cro-magnon man and woman wouldn't not have produced viable heirs downstream. However, if genesis is a allegorical story of how man evolved into intelligence (tree of good an evil) than there really is no conflict between science and religion. I believe in evolution and God both. I think God was the pool master during the big bang. Once he took that first shot, he knew where the balls were going to land. Isn't divine intervention during that first moment of creation more elegant than snapping his fingers?
2007-10-02 09:47:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is amble evidence to show that there was a very advanced civilization on earth before we have Adam and Eve. Were they real people? Maybe and maybe not. The Bible was written for all time and we are in a small section of time which is so advanced we have more questions then answers.
I believe God gave us this story and that is all we needed to know up until this time.... it is on a need to know basis. He's coming back soon so you can ask him in person.
2007-10-02 09:40:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mitochondrial DNA does seem to show we came from a small group of women, perhaps just one. I don't know if her name was Eve.. Neanderthals seem to have come from the same ancestry a different and failed branch of man.
2007-10-02 09:37:57 · answer #5 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, Adam and eve were humans, the religion of evolution will have you believe that we came from apes and even from one celled organisms, read the book the Vanishing Proofs of Evolution, its awesome and brings to truth real science
2007-10-02 09:37:57 · answer #6 · answered by JpCreation101 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, they were on the earth. And no, they were not neanderthals.
2007-10-02 09:37:51 · answer #7 · answered by SisterCF 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes and they were probably not Neanderthals. What I can say is that they didn't have belly buttons.
2007-10-02 09:49:03 · answer #8 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes!!! The bible is the most authentic historical document in existence and not a myth. Get and read thoroughly "Evidence that Demands a Verdict" by Josh McDowell.
2007-10-02 09:38:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no thay where not neanderthals thay are in a chriatian fairy tale and are not real but the neanderthals are real
2007-10-02 09:37:34 · answer #10 · answered by andrew w 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
2007-10-02 09:42:00 · answer #11 · answered by Scumspawn 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋