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Originally Posted by jackbauer
When the Bible talks about the sons of God and when it talks about one of the reasons Noah was chosen because his generations being perfect. We know from bones that have been found that Neanderthals existed wherever they came from, is it possible that was who it was talking about. There is evidence that in areas both existed in the same areas at the same time. I saw in the National Geographic Magazine that some scientists actually managed to extract dna and it supposedly showed some human dna patterns in it.
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Not wanting to pick a fight...
There is no geologic evidence of a worldwide flood in the last 10,000 years, so to try and cross reference a literal interpretation of
Genesis 6 - 11 with the evidence we do have is going to be problematic.
The Neanderthal DNA, as I remember the story, was mitochondrial so we were not able to see the chromosomes and tell if the Neanderthals could interbreed with the Cro-Magnon lines (us). What we could find from the mitochondrial evidence led researchers to conclude that the Neanderthals did not share descent from a common female as the available Cro-Magnon examples. Mitochondrial DNA is passed from mother to child only.