Can creationists explain Neanderthals?

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.