How does Native American history relate to Genesis? Right now, public schools teach a 15,000-year history of North America that ultimately goes back to Africa 200,000 years ago. Earlier, schools trace human ancestry back several million years to our last common ancestor with chimpanzees. In other words, mainstream education teaches a history of Native Americans that directly contradicts Genesis.
But this approach has a fatal weakness. It has trouble connecting the 15,000-year-old archaeological tale to actual Native American tribes. Without connection to tribes, it cannot recover a coherent pre-European game-by-game history.
But this article is not about evolutionary failures. It’s about the revolutionary success of something else – something that is deeply connected to Genesis. In the past few years, new research has revealed pre-European game-by-game history. But not just any research; Research based on Genesis 1-11.
What do I mean? Let’s take a common education topic: the first Thanksgiving. I grew up learning the long backstory of the first Europeans who landed on Cape Cod in 1600 AD. I never learned the backstory of their Algonquian—Native American—neighbors.
The reason? There is no good answer to development.
But now we do. And this is thanks to the clear history in Genesis 1-11.
What do the early chapters of Genesis 1-11 have to do with the history of the first Thanksgiving? Let me tell you a story, and the answer will become clear.
Several years ago, in 2018, I was working on the genetics of the history of human civilization. Why? Genesis 6-9 teach that all pre-Flood civilizations disappeared during the time of Noah. Therefore, all the civilizations we learn about in school must have arisen after the flood. For a number of technical reasons, we would expect this fact to leave a strong genetic signature.
One of the subcategories of the history of civilization revolves around the pre-European history of the Americas. In 2018, I learned about a sad fact: that 80% to 90% of pre-European Native Americans died after European arrival. Surely this will show up in geneticsI thought.
I found the smoking gun! In fact, I even found the smoking gun of subsequent population recovery.
I found these smoking guns only when analyzing the data in a framework dating back 4,500 years before Noah.
Let me clarify: I found these smoking guns When analyzing data only in the framework of 4,500 years before Noah. The evolutionary timeline provided no such clarity.
I then took these findings – based on the Genesis timescale – one step further. I asked what DNA could tell about the history of civilization in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans.
To make a long story short, I made another fantastic discovery. It turns out that the answer I got from genetics matched the description of the Algonquian Native American tribe. The history of the Delaware—an Algonquian nation—dates back to 900 B.C. Migration from Asia has been described around. DNA has also shown the same. Delaware records then described a long migration through the western part of Canada to what is now the United States, then across the Great Plains, and finally to the Atlantic shores.
Native American nations in the Algic language family, the majority of which are Algonquian nations.
It turns out that the New England Algonquians – who greeted the Pilgrims – arrived in Massachusetts only a century and a half before the Europeans.
And now you know the rest of the story of the first Thanksgiving. A Genesis-based framework for science is filling in history. Development Has failed to supply.
For more history on the Algonquians as well as the rest of North America, see they had names.
