"I'll have the Duck L'Orange...."
Posted on 09/29/2018 12:06:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Looks like my ex-wife’s family getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner.
Neanderthals could breed with homo sapiens, so they were the same general species.
The Jimmy Castor Bunch, Troglodyte song & vid comes to mind.
Neanderthals interbred with the “Cro-Magnon” version of mankind, and several racial types are descendants of this crossbreeding, most generally from the land east of the Urals.
Caucasians may not be as racially pure as has been depicted by the Aryan race theories.
In many instances, the greatest error our ancestors made, was to become our ancestors. But now I am thinking like Aldous Huxley, who was not a great fan of what humanity has come to be.
Earlier than that, and it gets a bit...fuzzier.
The lesson of the Neanderthals is that storytelling too frequently masquerades as settled science, and that worldview assumptions often are passed off as hard data. Science got Neanderthals wrong because too few scientists were interested in getting them right.
And remember, it wasn’t that long ago that entire groups of humans were portrayed as primitive and apelike because of similar Darwinian assumptions.
I have always disputed the Neanderthals as Humans theory.
You may believe whatever you like, but I believe I was Created by the Creator of all Creation. IMO, belief in Evolutionary Theory is unfortunate - why would anyone claim to have ancient primates in their family tree?
Ideas have consequences. Bad ideas have victims.
They still are. Look around, they are still here .
Piltdown Man says “hey, what about me?!”
The lesson of the Neanderthals is that storytelling too frequently masquerades as settled science,
...Yeah...don’t it?
...and they still vote Democrat.
In many instances, the greatest error our ancestors made, was to become our ancestors.
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This is pretty much why Martin Luther revolted against the sale of indulgences.. (A system by which the catholic church held the ancestors of europe hostage. But for a fee they could get their ancestors out of purgatory jail. It was a business.
Luther said the catholic sale of indulgences was unbiblical and caused witchcraft. Judging by its effect on whole denominations today —I would say Luther was correct,
It isn’t the genes we have, it’s the idiot nihilistic Left wing ideologies that glorify the state and reduce people to abstractions of persons.
Ethnic Europeans have on average 2.7% of their DNA traceable to the Neanderthals. Asians are a bit less but there are still detectable amounts and they range from 1-2% from what I’ve read. The Neanderthal DNA was particularly useful and is particularly concentrated in the immune system. That makes sense given they were in those colder climes for much longer and had had time to develop resistance to the diseases carried by the local flora and fauna while the later waves of humans coming out of Africa had not had time to develop resistance.
Congressman Al Green D-Texas
It is very interesting about the basque people and the possibility they have a plethora of Neanderthal genes...
If neanderthals are a separate species, so are East Asians.
And so on.
Ultimately different races, not a different species.
It is, BTW, no surprise that early scientist saw them as a different species. It hadn’t been that long before that that it had been a not uncommon scientific view that black persons were essentially just a related sub-species. That just being black made one substantively different from being white (a view, I might point out, that is mainly only held by Leftist and black persons these days).
In the past I’ve pointed out that this “scientific” view ultimately lay behind justification for anti-miscegenation laws, that these were the basis for persons not having the same status before the law and therefore being unable to marry. This would be similar to how slave could not marry free (no matter the race) or common not marry a royal or a legal child marry an adult or an idiot marry. I also pointed out that when the cause for different status before the Law went away, in was the case for when the view that black and white persons were substantively different fell, then the statutes based on that difference would inevitably crumble and such common law rights as the ability of a man (eligible to marry) to marry a woman (also eligible to marry) would trump the holdovers from bad science.
And, yes, I did point these things out to show how homosexual “marriages” are far different than interracial marriages, for the latter ultimately had no affect of the nature of marriage being between a man and a woman where the latter sought to completely alter the covenant by removing the logical and moral demand that each partner adds a specific diversity to the union ... whereas homosexual shackups simply lack the diversity of partners that the institution requires.
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