[SunkenCiv]

Neanderthal DNA is generally described as about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee.

No, it isn't. That's just some creationist stupidity that I'd not seen pop up on FR in a very long time.

[wendy1946]

Neanderthal DNA is generally described as about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee.

No, it isn't. That's just some creationist stupidity that I'd not seen pop up on FR in a very long time.

I've never seen that on any sort of a creationist source since most creationists would like to believe in a 6K year old Earth; I see it on science sites e.g.:

Comparisons with the DNA of modern humans and of apes showed the Neanderthal was about halfway between a modern human and a chimpanzee.

Neandertals are almost exactly halfway between the chimpanzee and modern humans...

Halfway Human... First Delson recreated the shape of SM3's skull using coordinates from some 200 points on its surface. He did the same for 23 other specimens-11 H. erectus, 10 modern H. sapiens, and 2 archaic H. sapiens. With this information, his computer program arranged the specimens according to their similarity, placing SM3 just about squarely between the erectus and modern humans-while even the archaic H. sapiens fell in among the erectus specimens.

Com­par­ing Ne­an­der­thal to hu­man and chim­pan­zee ge­n­omes showed that in ma­ny places the Ne­an­der­thal code matched chimp DNA but not hu­ma­n, Ru­bin said.

Again most creationists I speak with appear to think or at least want to think that the neanderthal was simply another race of modern humans, wjhich is clearly not what the evidence indicates. The neanderthal involved a species difference from us and not merely a racial or sub-species difference.

[GodGunsGuts]

==That’s just some creationist stupidity that I’d not seen pop up on FR in a very long time.

Awfully provocative, SunkenCiv. It would appear by the tone of your reply that you believe that creation science is synonymous with stupidity. Can you please supply specific examples to back up your allegation so we can get to the bottom of just who is (and who is not) stupid. You can start with Neanderthals, if you please.