GR>Why do you think my view requires them to be anything else? Must they be
GR>vicious enemies?
Just some creationist levity, sorry! Seldom do we see any human culture
living peacefully for 60,000 years.
GR>You have not really understood my view. The flood was long prior to
GR>Neanderthal and anatomically modern humans living in the same neighborhood.
GR>What happened to the Neanderthal? They went extinct. This is no different
GR>than the Man Dan Indian tribe going extinct last century, or the Norse
GR>Greenland colony all dying off.
So obviously they were then descendents of the Biblical Noah, must have
been capable of his technology and possessed his social capacity and
capabilities to live and interact with others. As such, they knew of God
and perhaps worshipped him. They must have kept the flood story and
Noahic geneology accurate in their tradition for millions of years.
Of course, this assumes that the flood preceded Neanderthal. But since
the image of God , including our mind, will, and emotions do not evolve,
the placement of Neanderthal pre or post flood is not relevant to
understanding humanness. Only our descendency from in-the-image-of-God
Adam.
I'm also assuming that you do not mean species-extinction, rather
assimilation at some point in time into a contemporaneous culture, i.e
they simply were gone... the trail ended so to speak... (much like the
Anasazi).
GR>Howeever, I do believe there was some interbreeding, but not a lot. I think
GR>each group thought the other too ugly to marry.
<big grin>
Paul Durham
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