>As a creationist, I find it easy to envision Neanderthal as human and a
>somewhat unique descendent of Adam. I do not allow a preassumption that
>both evolved along different pathways during different time periods,
>that they were anatomically different, possessed different technologies,
>or that evidence is located in different geographical areas. I also do
>not let their assumed appearance serve as a guide, but rather look at
>what evidence there is that he may have been a descendent and
>contemporary to "modern" man, and being a descendent of Adam maintained
>at least a remnant of knowledge of God. The burial evidence mentioned by
>Glenn may be interpreted in this way and worked into the model... a
>knowledge of God, of mortality, and the special place death played in
>their lives.
>
Here is where the rubber meets the road. You say that you are willing to
allow Neanderthal to be a descendent of Adam. Since Neanderthals are first
found in strata around 230,000 years old at Erhingsdorf, Germany and
Pontnewydd, England, (Chris Stringer and Clive Gamble, In Search of the
Neanderthals, (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1993), p. 66) this would seem to
say that you are accepting Adam as being at or prior to that time? Would this
be correct?
>I saw a very interesting show recently on PBS where it was alleged by
>several apparently credible scientists that Neanderthals and modern man
>were comtemporaries in the cave areas in France. Some even speculated
>as to whether interbreeding or a social caste system may have occurred.
>These guys weren't YEC's. Believe me. Evidently the evidence found
>showed that communication and trading occurred between the two groups.
>The scientists noted that this finding blew the pre-assumed evolutionary
>model out of the water.
It has long been known that Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans lived
in caves just down the road from each other in the Middle East. This
cohabitation seems to have taken place for something like 60,000 years.
glenn
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