Today I’m going to share my hypothesis rooted in Scripture that tries to answer a question believers have pondered for centuries: Are the Neandertal and Devonian man descendants of Adam and Eve, or are they beasts of the field after their kind, a non-human prototype?

“What is man that God is mindful of him?”

That question appears in Psalm 8, Psalm 144, and Job 7. And it doesn’t just ask about our size in the universe. It asks about our meaning and why the Creator of all things would set His attention on us.

Now, what I’m sharing is a hypothesis. It is an attempt to take the Bible seriously while also acknowledging that the world contains ancient remains and fossil evidence that many people interpret as “human” long before a straightforward reading of Adam’s timeline.

And before I go any further, I want to make a key distinction—because it matters for everything that follows:

When I refer to “prehistoric” or “prototype” forms, I am not calling them human in the biblical sense. I am describing human-like creatures—part of the animal world. In my view, man begins when God intervenes uniquely, creating Adamic mankind in His image: morally accountable, spiritually capable, and called to dominion.

So, the issue is not merely biology. Its identity, calling, and God’s design.

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