Neanderthals—Archaic Human Cousins or Descendants of Adam?

Neanderthals were descendants of Adam and Eve, just like us.

Well, it confirms what creationists have been saying for decades—Neanderthals were humans, just like us. I often get asked who the Neanderthals were. The answer is actually simple, when we start with God’s Word. All humans are descendants from Adam and Eve. Neanderthals were clearly human—they made jewelry, buried their dead, played musical instruments, fashioned and used tools, and married—and had children with so-called modern humans. Therefore, Neanderthals were descendants of Adam and Eve, just like us.

The genetic variants that make Neanderthals unique were likely present in the genomes of one or more of the eight people who survived the flood on the ark. And, following the flood, at the Tower of Babel, the human gene pool was split apart when God confused the languages and people spread over the earth leading to the formation of the different people groups (with unique cultures). Each population took a unique combination of genetic information with them, and that includes the human variety, including what we call Neanderthals today.

Neanderthals aren’t a mystery. They were simply humans, made in God’s image, who lived during a difficult time in earth’s history: the post-flood world and the ice age that followed the flood.

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This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.