Barbarian observes:
Some creationists were convinced they were a form of ape. Science right, creationists wrong.
Science is always 'right'.
No need to get petulant about it. Fact is, the creationists have wildly differing opinions about Neandertals and other early hominins. And they are most often wrong.
Gods Word is always right.
Which is why I go with His word, instead of the modern doctrines of creationism.
IF a few creationists thought Neandertal bones were from an ape....its because Gods Word eliminates any possibility of sub humans.
Nothing in God's word eliminates any possibility of other species of human. That is a modern alteration of His word.
But at least they did not think a Neandertal tooth was evidence of extinct pigs.
Neither did scientists. You got that one garbled, too.
It was evolutionists trying to sell their belief system as science who said Neandertals were dim witted.
Show me a cite from the literature. I've heard creationists claim they were apes, but I never heard a primatologist or a physical anthropologist say so.
Let's see what you've got.
Why not assume Neandertals were more intelligent?? Simple....that would be contradictory to evolutionism that believes intelligence evolved.
You've got that backwards, too. Evolutionary theory predicted a humanlike body before a humanlike brain. Which is why Piltdown was such an embarrassment to science, until evolutionists showed that it was a fraud.
And of course, the predicted hominins, with apelike skulls and humanlike bodies were eventually found.
Science has shown many of us are ancestors of Neandertals and helps confirm the Biblical account. All humanity is one blood.
Barbarian observes:
This was demonstrated by an "evolutionist", Dr. Francis Collins, who is a world-class scientist and an evangelical Christian who accepts the fact of evolution.
On the other hand, the last world class biologist who was a creationist, denied that Africans were related at all to other humans, considering them to be a separate creation. And into the 90s, creationists like Henry Morris continued to blather about the supposed genetic inferiority of black people.
Delicious irony that evolutionists keep finding evidence that confirms the truth of scripture.... often admitting surprise. (Jefferson has a thread with examples of science surprising evolutionists...with the science showing Biblical creationists were correct)
Funny thing, everytime someone examines those claims, they fall apart. Why do you suppose that happens?
I always like to recall that Neandertal bones were discovered in a valley named after a young German, Joachim Neander who wrote 60 Christian hymns including one that" is generally regarded as one of the greatest hymns of praise of the Christian church"....Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation (German: 'Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren')
Actually, they were named because they were found in the valley of the Neander river (hence "Neander tal" meaning "Neander river valley")
The species is named after Neandertal ("Neander Valley"), the location in Germany where it was first discovered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal
Makes a good story your way, though.
