Do you believe in behavioural modernity?

[Angrboda]

The Neanderthals were antediluvians. Noah is our common ancestor.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you have previously represented the flood and Noah as symbolic. ("The flood waters represent universal lack of truth and resulting brutality that filled the earth as some point in history. Noah represents the seed of spiritual truth that was preserved through this turmoil." here) Am I misunderstanding your prior representation, or have you changed your position? If the former, how do you determine that literal events in history (the existence of neanderthals, a common ancestor) correspond to specific symbolic events? What do you mean when you say that Noah is our "common ancestor" ? Do you believe in a literal, world-covering flood, or is that symbolic? (That was the question which prompted your earlier reply about Noah.)