Comments on: Genesis 6:1–8 — Noah Found Favor https://reformedforum.org/podcasts/pc24/ Reformed Theological Resources Fri, 03 Jul 2015 15:08:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Bruce Sanders https://reformedforum.org/podcasts/pc24/#comment-3357949 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 05:11:05 +0000 http://reformedforum.wpengine.com?p=4428&preview_id=4428#comment-3357949 During the podcast you spoke of “daughters of men,” etc. Where do ancient hominids such as Neandertal, Denisovan and Flores, each of which mated with Homo sapiens in different regions of the world, fit into your history of human kind?

On June 22, 2015, The Scientist published yet another discovery:

– “DNA taken from a 40,000-year-old modern human jawbone from the cave Pestera cu Oase in Romania reveals that this man had a Neandertal ancestor as recently as four to six generations back.” … “This isn’t the first time researchers have identified a human-Neanderthal hybrid. Previously, researchers had found evidence of an older admixture event that occurred in the Near East in what is modern-day Israel.”

It has been known for several years now that each of us in America with European ancestry has up to 3% Neandertal DNA. Italians still living in Tuscany have up to 4.5%.

Regarding Denisovan DNA: Melanesians and Aboriginal Australians have up to 5%, but no Neandertal DNA.

Homo floresiensis DNA to date has only been found on the island Flores in Indonesia.

On a different front, earlier this year, a man in South Africa was sequenced with yet-another unique Y-chromosome. This is the second time for such a discovery; the first was in 2013 when a man living in South Carolina (originally from Cameroon) was found to be unlike any other man alive today.

The evidence continues to mount on several fronts that modern humans did not come from an original Adam and Eve pair which created the ancestry to Noah.

All of the above information is from peer-reviewed professional papers, available on the Internet. My friends often keep me updated. How am I to witness what you are teaching?

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