Are Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal man descendants of Noah or Abraham?
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No.  They were separate creation of God that did not survive the flood.  They were sub-human species.  They were not in the human line of Adam.  They undoubtedly lived along side man and had some of the same features and habits, but that is where the similarities end.
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An analysis of Neanderthal DNA and mitochondria a few years ago seems to indicate that there is no Neanderthal-specific DNA continuing on in our present day population.\n\nThis does not mean they did not mate, of course. We know the two species knew each other and even communicated: Neanderthals of the later eras changed from the standard Mousterian toolmaking technique to a later technology known as chatelperronian - which is a hybrid of their own techniques and that of the "Cro Magnon" modern humans.\n\nAlso, there appears, for a time, to have been a population of people that had some Neanderthal features and some modern ones, suggesting intermarriage.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/323657.stm\n\nHowever, as I said, it does not appear that any of their DNA has survived into our modern era.
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Homo erectus is now thought not to have been a direct ancestor of humans, but to have lived at the same time and have had the same ancestor. Genetic studies on both mitochondial DNA and Y chromosomes indicates that a common ancestor lived around 150,000 years ago.  However, that doesnt mean that modern humans werent around before that, just that our direct ancestors lived 150,000 years ago.
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Neanderthals were fully human.
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Biblical?\n\nIgnorant, superstitious Bronze Age nomads.
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They were giant evil half breeds. The angels (I believe fallen) bred with human women creating a wicked evil super being. This is the reason God flooded the Earth. Read the Book of Enoch and you will learn more detail of them. They are called Nephilum. The Book of Enoch was discovered in Ethiopia in 1773 and then again in the Quram cave #4 (Dead Sea Scrolls). Enoch was Cains son and wrote the prophecies of the flood and the parting of the Red Sea.
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To answer the whole question --the fifth human person named is Enoch, whose parents were "Cain and his wife"  (Genesis 4:17)\n\n(Not to be confused with the Enoch more people may have heard of--a descendant of Seth.  Cain's son is involved in building the first CITY, but the other "walked with God, and he was not, for God took him" -Gen 5:24.   Ironically, the 'Sethian' Enoch is named as the father of Methusaleh, who is considered the 'oldest man' though he died before his father!\n\nIf anyone is interested in word meaning and such, the Hebrew word Enoch --or we could more precisely transcribe at as 'Chenoch' [the 'ch' in each case being pronounced like the ch of Scottish "loch"]-- means 'dedicated, consecrated'.  It is the root of the word Chanukkah/Hanukkah, that is, the [Feast of] Dedication [of the Temple], celebrating the cleansing & reconsecrating of the Temple during the Maccabean revolt, after Antiochus Epiphanes had deliberately desecrated it.)
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What is a true Jew, the descendant of Hebrew slaves who escaped Egypt 3500 years ago, that is a myth. or is it the descendant of Hebrews cast away from the land of Israel 2500 years ago, that's is doubtful.\nMost Jews descend from the Jewish population of Israel, that were evicted by the Romans 2000 years ago, and moved to many locations in Asia and Europe, like Persia and Babylon, Spain, south Germany, Yemen, and many other places.\nabove that they all are followers of the Jewish faith.
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2. You're wrong about the second scripture. God told Noah to take in two of every unclean animal, but to take in the clean animals by sevens. You were close, though. Thanks for shooting down a common myth. \n3. Yes. He had to tell the truth in the book of Job, when God asked Satan what he had been doing in the world. \n6. Yes. God will come down to establish a 100-mile high and 100-mile wide city on the earth. \n7. Abraham did have two sons. He had Isaac and Ishmael. The Jews that descended from Abraham, though, are also counted as his children.
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You may be interested in this site: it lists the many fossil homonids.\n\nSome of the more famous fossil homonids include the Taung child, Turkana boy, Chellean man, Heidelberg man, and of course Lucy.  The site provided gives information on these and many other fossil homonids.  It also has interesting rebuttals to creationist arguments that these fossils are false, made-up, non-human, not as old as they seem they are, etc.  Definitely worth the read if you're interested in this topic...\n\nhttp://www.snowcrest.net/goehring/a2/primates/fossils.htm#args_piltdown\n\nIt is also good to remember that not all homonid fossils are "human ancestors", the Homo genus "family tree" has many branches.  There's a good article on Wikipedia explaining this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution\n\nHope this is helpful :-)
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Ham was the father of four sons, Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. (Gen. 10:6; 1 Chron. 1:8.) The Ethiopians, Egyptians, some Arabian and African tribes, and the Canaanites descended from these sons.\n\nHam saw his father’s nakedness, and instead of showing the proper respect for Noah, the family head and the servant and prophet whom God had made an instrument in the preservation of the human race, Ham told his two brothers of his discovery. Shem and Japheth exhibited the proper respect by walking backwards with a mantle to cover Noah so that they would not bring reproach by looking on their father’s nakedness. Noah, on awakening, uttered a curse, not on Ham, but on Ham’s son Canaan. In the accompanying blessing of Shem, which included a blessing for Japheth, Ham was passed over and ignored; only Canaan was mentioned as cursed and was prophetically foretold to become a slave to Shem and Japheth.\n\nBiblical and other historical evidence indicates that Shem was thus the progenitor of the Semitic peoples: the Elamites, the Assyrians, the early Chaldeans, the Hebrews, the Aramaeans (or Syrians), various Arabian tribes, and perhaps the Lydians of Asia Minor.  This would mean that the population descended from Shem was concentrated principally in the southwestern corner of the Asiatic continent, extending throughout most of the Fertile Crescent and occupying a considerable portion of the Arabian Peninsula.\n\nHistorically, Japheth was the progenitor of the Aryan or Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) branch of the human family. The names of his sons and grandsons are found in ancient historical texts as relating to peoples and tribes residing mainly to the N and W of the Fertile Crescent.  They appear to have spread from the Caucasus eastward into Central Asia and westward through Asia Minor to the islands and coastlands of Europe and perhaps all the way to Spain. Arabian traditions claim that one of Japheth’s sons was also the progenitor of the Chinese peoples.
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Abraham, Isaac, Jacob are the 3 Patriarchs.  \n\nAbraham was father of Isaac and Ishmael (Arab nations come from Ishmael). \n\nIsaac was father of Jacob and Esau (Roman Empire is said to come from Esau). \n\nJacob fathered the 12 tribes of Israel which is where the Jewish nation comes from.\n\nAbraham's wife was Sarah (a second wife was Hagar who bore Ishmael).\n\nIsaac's wife Rebbecca (Rebecca bore both Jacob and Esau)\n\nJacob's 2 wives Rachel and Leah (plus 2 more wives Bilhah and Zilpah who fathered some of the 12 tribes as well).\n\nSarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah are the 4 matriarchs.\n\nThere are many stories of all of them mainly in Genesis. They are our role models in their relationship to G-d and desire to do His Will. We also emulate their character traits such as kindness, compassion, etc.  Abraham was the first to turn away from Paganism as he ascertained by looking at the world around him that there must be One G-d, Creator of heavens and earth.  It is debated whether the  Patriarchs and Matriarchs were considered "Jewish" since the Jews did not become a nation till a few hundred  years later upon receiving the Torah at Sinai.  \n\nAlthough I've seen it mentioned several times on this site, it is NOT true that Jews only come from the tribe of Judah, although the root word of Judah and Jews is the same.  Jews today come from Levi, Judah and Benjamin.  The rest of the tribes are considered to be lost and will be reclaimed in future time.\n\nHope this answers your question.
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There was no original race.\nThen there was Abraham and he was the FIRST jew.
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How in the world can skeletons be wrong.  I can see actual theories being potentially wrong, because they're just that, theories.  But skeletons?  You can't fake that stuff and get away with it these days!\n\nHowever, in the interests of the question, I'll attempt to find something.\n\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/a_java.html -- Definitely in support of the whole "homo erectus was a hominid" thing, but it gives a brief statement as to why creationists USED to use "Java Man" as an example of why they weren't anywhere near hominid.  Interesting.\n\nThis is an interesting list from the "Answers in Genesis" website listing arguments that they don't think creationists SHOULD use in support of creationism.  I wonder what they would say these things do support... http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/faq/dont_use.asp#java_man\n\nThis is an article on why the genes of the ancient hominids and ours are related. http://home.entouch.net/dmd/hegene.htm\n\nThis article verifies that scientists have found that homo erectus was a widespread and thoroughly homogenous species that was an obvious precursor to ours: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/03/020325080853.htm\n\nOkay, I think that this article says that they (all of the human fore-species) can all be considered the same species but in different stages of development.  Is that what you were looking for? http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v8/i1/erectus.asp\n\nHere's more information on Homo Erectus: http://anthropology.net/tags/homo_erectus\n\nHere is an article about Neandertals from the Answering Genesis website: https://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v25/i4/neandertal.asp\n\nHowever, this article explains the exaggerations that creationists often make in regards to how close the relationship between Neandertals and modern humans is: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/a_neands.html\n\nAnd here is an article on a breakthrough in mapping out the DNA of the Neandertals that states that they were most definitely a different species from the hominids of the time and from us!  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wolpoff/Papers/Concocting.PDF#search='neandertal%20AND%20wrong'\n\nI couldn't find anything saying that it was wrong that Cro Magnon man were our closest ancestors; in fact, even the creationists were quiet on that one.  I think it's because Cro Magnon traits can still be seen today, so it's a little hard to disprove.\n\nI hope this helped answer your question, although I'm not sure if I interpreted it correctly or not.
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No, Adam and Eve were the first Homo Sapiens.\n\nYou're trying too hard to fit science and the bible together.  God didn't create a clean rock called Earth.  He created the Earth with a history.  That's how you come to terms with 1,000,000 year old fossils.  He made them that old to begin with.  Connecting evolution to the Bible is easier than you think.
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well methodical scientist have traced the location of Eden back to Egypt along with the very first case of homo-erectus (i know, it sounds gross doesn't it?) so if Adam and eve were in fact the first man and woman they were tan just as the Egyptians are.
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Very interesting indeed...  This may very well be another piece of the puzzle.\n\nAn earlier theory speculated , well before neanderthals existed, was the ability to walk upright was an anatomical change that later facilitated cranial development.\n\nUpright ambulatory movement freed the hands to later craft tools, literally gave a different perspective of the world, etc.\n\nGenetically, proof of our connection to the great apes has been established by Hillier et al, Nature 2004.  Mind you, we didn't come FROM the apes, but share a common ancestor.  Peace.