Neanderthals got their name from a valley that was, in turn, named after a beloved pastor and hymnwriter named Joachim Neander. Thus, since their first discovery, they have been associated with Christianity, believe it or not. Problem is, Neanderthals have been consistently used as arguments against the very foundation of Christianity: the Bible. Can we incorporate these enigmatic people into any sort of biblical history? If so, how? Dr Rob gives his solution here. Neanderthals are a post-Flood people group, descendants of Adam and Eve, and descendants of Noah. There were fully human, but also highly mutated.

Joachim Neander: wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Neander
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty: wikipedia.org/wiki/Praise_to_the_Lord,_the_Almighty
Pettyjohn's Cave: walkercountyga.gov/discover/recreation/crockford-pigeon-mountain-wildlife-management-area/caving/
Virchow: creation.com/african-invasion-of-the-bodysnatchers
POGs = People Outside the Garden: creation.com/review-swamidass-the-genealogical-adam-and-eve
Questions about Cain: creation.com/cain-chronology
Neanderthals POST Flood: creation.com/neanderthals-pre-flood
Patriarchal Drive (article): creation.com/patriarchal-drive
Patriarchal Drive (video): biblicalgenetics.com/old-fathers-are-genetic-poison/
Long branch attraction: wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_branch_attraction
Not the Flintstones—it’s the Denisovans: creation.com/denisovan
An overview of the Denisovan puzzle: creation.com/denisovan-puzzle
Neanderthal the changing picture: creation.com/neandertal-man-the-changing-picture
Poznik's claim that most African Ys arose outside of Africa: Poznik, G.D. et al., Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences, Nature 48:593–599, 2016, nature.com/articles/ng.3559.

Thumbnail photo by Jakub Hałun  Model of Homo neanderthalensis man in The Natural History Museum, Vienna - via Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homo_Sapiens,_Cro-Magnon_1_The_Natural_History_Museum_Vienna,_20210730_1223_1272.jpg.