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No one knows exactly what killed the Neanderthals, and many ideas have been proposed, but there is no physical evidence on Neanderthals more recent than 24,000 years ago.

That was also my point, most Christians believe in there being one creation, which started with Adam and Eve almost seven thousand years ago.

I believe the bible speaks of God making man on the sixth day as being the creation, it says these are the generations in which everything was created, not literal days but thousands of years.

It was after this that God made Adam and Eve.

So if the creation is the way it appears to me from reading about it in the Bible then it would have been possible for man and the Neanderthals to live at the same time, and it might even explain the missing link, but like i said i don,t put much stock in every thing that is called science.

ravenwolf: "most Christians believe in there being one creation, which started with Adam and Eve almost seven thousand years ago."

Actually, that's not what "most Christian" churches teach, if by "most Christians" you include Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Mainline Protestants -- which add up to around 85% of all the world's Christians.

Those churches all teach there is no conflict between science and Genesis, if Genesis is understood as a remarkably accurate representation recorded by people who had zero, zip, nada knowledge of actual science.

Remember, the purpose of Genesis is not to explain the world scientifically, but rather to illustrate imperfect mankind's relationship to Almighty God.
This relationship does not change regardless if we understand it through Genesis, or even through a scientific perspective.

ravenwolf: "...i don,t put much stock in every thing that is called science."

There is no law requiring anyone to believe any scientific theory or hypothesis.
And you can base your rejections on whatever criteria you chose.
But if you chose your particular interpretation of the Bible as a basis for rejecting some scientific theory, then you should at least have the common decency not to pretend your ideas are somehow more "scientific" than science.

That was also my point, most Christians believe in there being one creation, which started with Adam and Eve almost seven thousand years ago.

The conclusion I come to is that there had to have been at least two saltations of modern humans on this planet, that is, the Cro Magnons who got here at some point before there was even light on the planet, and the familiar Bible antediluvians starting with Adam and Eve.

There is a list of things which the Bible and Jewish literature would have to know about if you wanted to believe that Adam and Eve were descended From Cro Magnons and which the Bible and Midrashim appear to know nothing about:

Stone tools. Adam and Eve and their descendants were metal-tech people from day one. By contrast, human groups descended from Cro Magnons went on using stone tools until forced out of it by neighbors descended from Bible antediluvians if they ever stopped at all. Aztecs were using stone knives and weapons when the Spanish arrived even though they used gold for ornaments and purposes other than tools, and native Australians are killing kangaroos with such weapons now.
The atlatl i.e. the signature weapon of the Cro Magnon people. The Bible knows nothing of this weapon; the weapons of the Bible are the sword, the spear, the sling, and the bow. By contrast, amongst Cro Magnon descendants, the Aztecs were using atlatls agains the Spanish and native Australians use it to hunt kangaroos today.
Neanderthals and/or other hominids. The Bible knows nothing of hominids. By contrast, the Basque "Basajuan" appears to be a reflection of the Neanderthal and the Australian "Yowie" appears to be some sort of hominid, possibly the Neanderthal, which native Australians remember. Amerinds likewise in their oral traditions remember dealing with hominids as well as dinosaurs and ice-age megafauna.
An upper paleolithic (I prefer the term Neolithic) world war in which all hominids were exterminated from the planet.
A "Purple Age", that is, a protracted age without any source of light such as we experience now, prior to the classical "Golden Age" of ancient literature. Dwardu Cardona notes that the Bible mentions the creation of light before the sun and moon are created and that the beginning is called an age when "the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep"; but Adam and Eve and the Bible antediluvians did not live on Earth in that age and the Bible beyond Genesis 1:2 does not speak of it again. By contrast, native Australians refer to this purple age as a "dream time" which their traditions recall vividly, and Amerind oral traditions speak of it as well.

All of these are the kinds of things which make deep and overwhelming impressions on people and which nobody ever totally forgets about, no matter how many ages pass by afterwards. The fact that the Bible and Midrashim do not know anything about any of them has to indicate that neither the Bible antediluvians nor any of their ancestors if they had any, ever experienced them.

The neat thing about Cro Magnon hunting weapons is that you don't have to guess as to what they looked like or how they worked...

Hunting fruit bats with a boomarang

Picture being a Beretta salesman and having to try to sell that guy a shotgun.....

Hunting kangaroos with atlatls (woomera in native Australian language)