Neanderthal Genome

[mizzdy]

The Lord revealed what we needed to know "for life and godliness," but that's it - which isn't a whole lot, really.

You're right He did give to us what we needed to know to have life with Him after this age has ended. I lean in a direction there were others before us, I have always felt that way ever since I learned about 'pre-human' beings. As a kid I learned about 'early man' about the same time I learned about the flood. In my child's mind I somehow connected those two and somehow I came up with my theories which have only grown over the years. Oh and then I met my husband and well its been interesting.

When I get to Heaven, I hope the Lord allows me (us) to know the whole story - from a Western scientific perspective.

Sometimes I envision sitting around having some real good conversations with all of those people in the bible not to mention talking a walk with an angel. Just the talks alone could take an eternity.

[Fraught]

i found the article to be contradictory on a couple of points. it first states that there was no interbreeding; then it goes on to speculate on when the 2 species split from a common ancestor. what?

there is a lot of speculation going on in this article - no different than every other time we start speculating on human origin.

[Fraught]

i found the article to be contradictory on a couple of points. it first states that there was no interbreeding; then it goes on to speculate on when the 2 species split from a common ancestor. what?

there is a lot of speculation going on in this article - no different than every other time we start speculating on human origin.

i think also this subject has been busted on this forum awhile back.

[MorningGlory]

i found the article to be contradictory on a couple of points. it first states that there was no interbreeding; then it goes on to speculate on when the 2 species split from a common ancestor. what?

there is a lot of speculation going on in this article - no different than every other time we start speculating on human origin.

i think also this subject has been busted on this forum awhile back.

The article actually states that so far there is no evidence of interbreeding and then goes off in the wrong direction by claiming that man and neanderthals, not to mention apes, split from a common ancestor. Well, that's not so. Apes are still apes, man is man, and neanderthals went extinct. Unless one wants to believe that a few apes evolved and the rest stayed exactly the same. That doesn't even make sense when you consider that science says that all horses or all elephants or all birds evolved from earlier species. Truth is, IMO, that none of that happened. I don't understand why science is so bound and determined to make us descendants of apes anyway. Unless it's to try to negate the story of Creation.

[Floatingaxe]

Genesis 1:1-2

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

There is no teling how much time elapses betweeen verse 1 and 2. To many, myself included, it could be an eon.

Yes, but His word tells us that the earth was without form and empty. That alone would dispute the existence of anything.

The earth was already pre-existing.

[nebula]

i found the article to be contradictory on a couple of points. it first states that there was no interbreeding; then it goes on to speculate on when the 2 species split from a common ancestor. what?

You have to understand how the theory of evolution actually works . . . think of leaves on trees. Two leaves can be on separate branches yet still originate from a single branch (that their respective branches branched off of) . . . I hope that makes sense.

But that's what they mean by this.

[Guest man]

You have to understand how the theory of evolution actually works . . . think of leaves on trees. Two leaves can be on separate branches yet still originate from a single branch (that their respective branches branched off of) . . . I hope that makes sense.

But that's what they mean by this.

[OneLight]

Genesis 1:1-2

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

There is no teling how much time elapses betweeen verse 1 and 2. To many, myself included, it could be an eon.

Yes, but His word tells us that the earth was without form and empty. That alone would dispute the existence of anything.

The earth was already pre-existing.

Allow me to point out again that His word tells: Genesis 1:2 "The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters."

The earth had no form and was empty.

OneLight

[JustinM]

Maybe the neanderthals didn't have a soul, or didn't have the Holy Spirit within them. I don't know the answer to that, but I believe that God wrote the Bible so that it would relate to human beings on all levels, which is why I believe that when the bible says 7 days, it means 7 days.

[Guest man]

To me, although many people disagree, it means that there was another creation before the creation we read about in Scriptures. It lends itself to the "Gap Theory" where between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, there exists an unknown gap of time where God created and destoyed, which resulted in a formless void on this planet. Neanderthal beings fall into that time slot very well.

Is this a theory that you came up with or is it something you heard?