wikipedia.org
neandertal-man
Reconstruction of the head of the Shanidar 1 fossil, a Neanderthal male.
CMI article caption.
wikipedia.org
neandertal-man
Reconstruction of the head of the Shanidar 1 fossil, a Neanderthal male.
CMI article caption.
Here’s my takeaway from the article and from personal experience:
Avoid Hugh Ross and his organization RTB (Reasons to Believe).
more drivelous balderdash
"The box of wine is cold, the water warm, and I promise you won't get pregnant!"
I will worry about that when I have absolutely nothing else to worry about.
My personal theory is that the antediluvians were a lot more advanced than we probably know and the neantherdals and other hominids were probahly human-ape hybrids in an attempt to engineer stronger humans.
The use of interbreeding to define the boundaries of species is convenient but does have its problems.
For example, you can have a breeding “cline” of, say, populations A, B, C, D, E, F, where organisms of adjacent groups can interbreed (A&B, B&C, C&D, etc.) but A & F cannot.
And failure to interbreed is not always genetic. Populations might be able to interbreed successfully in terms of genetics, but are prevented for reasons that are geographical, behavioral, or even anatomical.
I’m not clear how you argue that “God sets a genetic boundary” if, for example, He allows the genetics to work out ok but offers an anatomical impediment to interbreeding.
There are only 200 fossil sets of neanderthal bones and very few of them are complete. Nebraska man was built on one tooth that turned out to be a pig tooth. I am going to wait a while for more evidence.
A better title: “Young Earthers Go Ape Over Hominids”
Someone watching the creation of species at this time, probably wouldn’t have expected a crowning creation to be a variation on what we now call hominids. Surely it would have to be something physically strong like a Tyrannosaurus, or that flew high like an Eagle, or that could dig deep like a Badger. And then when God said “none of the above” and created something like an ape, they would say “God, are You nuts?” But this ape like being would have the capability of wisdom like no other animal.
More garbage from the short-bus people. Good grief, I hope these creationist idiots have someone monitoring their meds.
Also, the whole context of Genesis 2 and on is very Mesopotamian (the Tigris and Euphrates, the word "Eden" itself), and Neolithic (farming, herding, Cain building a city). If that's right, and we assume the scientific timetable, then we can't really talk about "man" in the theological sense 40,000 years ago.
Theological "man" was likely created in the Mesopotamian Neolithic, ca. 7000-5000 B.C. Whatever happened before then was not part of man's story as laid out in Genesis.
Direct attacks on Ross, eh? They must be taking the limelight away from the YEC’s.
That quote!—about the missing transitional fossils.
What is the rank-and-file FR evolutionist response to this observation?
Seriously ... need to look no further than who my sister dates/marries