Not that anybody reads my blog. [1]

I chanced upon a place in Genesis where it talks about Giants in the earth. It occurs to me that there is a strong coincidence in the respective descriptions rendered by science and by the bible here, of one sort of ‘pre-historic man’. When I say prehistoric- I mean, well the Bible here speaks about a time before document- that is, Genesis we suppose is a revealed account or an oral account- not for instance the remains of notes actually written by the hands of witnesses beginning with Adam for goodness’ sake.

Also- here I am not saying that the Bible is true or that it isn’t. Establish that opinion for yourself without my aid. I have a question though. For the sake of argument- couldn’t Genesis’ “giants” have been Neanderthal- the largest of the prehistoric men?

Concerning Neanderthal, the sum of my reading in various encyclopedias (wikipedia, Encarta and Britannica) yields the following related items:

Neanderthal was probably smarter than the other humans. Neanderthal was fewer in number. Though they were under six foot tall and shortish by today’s standards- at the time, though would have been taller and considerably more massive then the other humans. He likely interacted with Cro-magnon and possibly others. He likely was [2] partially bred out of existence and partially may just not have been able to compete with the other humans or else adapt to the warming climate.

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Here’s what we find in Genesis:

Gen:6[4] “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”

A stretch? Perhaps. Just curious what others thought about this.