Gen.6:4 “There were giants on the earth in those days . . .”
“giants” = Heb. “nephilim”. This word comes from another word meaning “to fall”. These giants were fallen ones, or mighty ones who had fallen. They were, apparently, of great size and also very wicked. They might be called superhuman. They were abnormal humans, and their destruction was essential in order to preserve the human race.
Gen. 6: 4 gives the origin of these giants. “The sons of God came in the daughters of men, and they bore children to them”. In other words, humans and angels interbred.
The main objection to this is the biological one. How can human and angelic DNA combine? Surely the two are different species?
Human ancestors mated not only with Neanderthals but also with Denisovans, due to which East Asian’s share genetic material with Denisovans as well, a new study has said.
And now science confirms the bible (although Neanderthal were shorter than omo sapiens, they were .. buy modern standards … ugly enough to be “giants”:
According to Mattias Jakobsson, who conducted the study with Pontus Skoglund, the Denisovans are known only by a few bone fragments like a finger bone, a tooth and possibly a toe bone and likely split off from the Neanderthal branch of the hominin family tree about 300,000 years ago.
The Uppsala scientists’ study demonstrates that hybridization also occurred on the East Asian mainland.
The connection was discovered by using genotype data in order to obtain a larger data set and these genetic data can be compared with genome sequences from Neandertals and a Denisovan which have been determined from archeological material.
Genotype data stems from genetic research where hundreds of thousands of genetic variants from test panels are gathered on a chip, but this process leads to unusual variants not being included, which can lead to biases if the material is treated as if it consisted of complete genomes.
To avoid this, Skoglund and Jakobsson used advanced computer simulations to determine what this source of error means for comparisons with archaic genes and have thereby been able to use genetic data from more than 1,500 modern humans from all over the world.
They found that individuals from mainly Southeast Asia have a higher proportion of Denisova-related genetic variants than people from other parts of the world, such as Europe, America, West and Central Asia, and Africa.
The study has been recently published in online edition of PNAS. (ANI)