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Wow! This is a great video that lays out nicely how Neanderthals are really humans. 

 

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Phillipians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are of serious concern, whatever things are righteous, whatever things are chaste, whatever things are lovable, whatever things are well-spoken-of, whatever things are virtuous, and whatever things are praiseworthy, continue considering these things. 

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This is my own opinion but after the flood there were 8. What was before? Do we know? Do we have a full DNA set or limited? Can we ever really trust radiocarbon dating (likely no)? We'll find out!

 

Like @LeolaRootStew said and I echo, the resurrection is going to be surprising and we may see how Satan tried to take credit through secularism/humanism. When the reality was it was there all along. He just blurred the lines. Exciting!! Thanks @Shawnster😁

 


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2 hours ago, Shawnster said:

Wow! This is a great video that lays out nicely how Neanderthals are really humans. 

Excellent! Do you remember Alley Oop comics? He was a Neanderthal brought to the present via a time machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Oop Lots of fun for little kids!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcNSGFeUIV0

 

How many Neanderthals have been found outside caves? It was mentioned that they ritually buried their dead. Did they find the graves and where were they?

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Here is a catalogue of Neanderthal finds and what I discovered, is that the vast majority of them are found in caves, often buried in mud that has hardened into rock or brechia. It just seems odd that their remains stayed in the caves, as these were their homes as places for protection from the elements. If somebody died in a home, would you leave it to rot beside you? The other explanation is that they were trying to escape something outside the home; torrential rain never seen in that amount before. After it was finished there was nobody left to dig them out.

Don't be thrown off by the great ages assigned, as it is often determined by the age of the mud around the bones.

https://dinoera.com/humans-ancestors/homo-ancestors/catalog-of-neanderthal-remains-sites-2-of-4/

The caves were not unlike those in England that contained a mix of animal bones of predators along with their prey. It is as if they were all fleeing into the cave and eating was not as important as survival.

https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/banwell-bone-caves/

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Sime interesting observations, Percy.

Neander Valley, near Düsseldorf, was named after Joachim Neumann, a 17thcentury German pastor, who likely was a man with broader interests.

 

Those discovered remains that you have mentioned, show from research that they were physically and genetically distinct from modern humans. Since we have biblical lineage of humans from Adam down, we know for sure that anything accurately dated before the time of Adam must be of a kind covered by the creations in a different, pre-human era.

I am not yet wise, but I am on the long road that gets me there - Prov 9:10

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36 minutes ago, Mike047 said:

Sime interesting observations, Percy.

Neander Valley, near Düsseldorf, was named after Joachim Neumann, a 17thcentury German pastor, who likely was a man with broader interests.

 

Those discovered remains that you have mentioned, show from research that they were physically and genetically distinct from modern humans. Since we have biblical lineage of humans from Adam down, we know for sure that anything accurately dated before the time of Adam must be of a kind covered by the creations in a different, pre-human era.

 

Or their dating system is wrong.

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2 hours ago, Percy said:

If somebody died in a home, would you leave it to rot beside you? The other explanation is that they were trying to escape something outside the home; torrential rain never seen in that amount before

 

 

That's one possibility. On the other hand, not everything connects back to the Flood. We need to resist the fallacy of confirmation bias. 

 

 

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Those discovered remains that you have mentioned, show from research that they were physically and genetically distinct from modern humans. Since we have biblical lineage of humans from Adam down, we know for sure that anything accurately dated before the time of Adam must be of a kind covered by the creations in a different, pre-human era.

 

We understand these individuals were descendants of Adam. They weren't from before him, no matter what the dating methods state. If they found Adam and Eve's remains, those would also date much older than 6,000 years ago. 

 

What causes these dates to be so inaccurate is a mystery. One possibility is a major climatic event like the Flood resulted in messing up the dating methods similar to how atomic bombs have resulted in affecting the dating of paintings from before/after 1945. 

 

That's one possibility, but we can't be dogmatic on that. There may be a reason not related to the Flood. 


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