Neanderthal DNA is now described as about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee. That eliminates the neanderthal as a plausible human ancestor, and all other hominids were further removed. We are not related to any of them.
The religious problem with RC dating arises in Genesis 7, i.e. a global flood eliminates the assumptions RC dating is based on. Other than that I don’t see any evidence in the article here that any of the other methods you mention were involved.