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Well a difference of 2% between Humans and Chimps and 0.5% between Humans and Neanders is more accurately characterized as being 3/4 between human and chimpanzee tending towards human - but if you prefer a journalists characterization to actual knowledge and a more accurate assessment - have at it.

All authorities agree the Neanderthal is roughly halfway. If the human-chimp difference is 2%, the human-Neanderthal difference is 1% and not .5%. For that matter, even a quarter of the difference between humans and chimpanzees is a gigantic genetic difference and caucasions being in any way descended from such a thing would produce huge differences between whites and other races, which is definitely not the case.

Jibberish. The same “authority” your cite referenced I showed saying that Neanderthals were basically human, just more different than any other humans. The number referenced for Neander genetic similarity is 99.5% not 99% - but we seem to be quibbling over half a % point.

Either way, a 1-4% admixture of something 99% (or 99.5%) the same is not going to lead to a huge genetic difference.

And how do you explain the existence of a creature that is (supposedly) halfway between humans and chimps?

God playing a joke? An experiment? Giants in the Earth?

You have an explanation? Considering just how whackadoo loony your other ‘explanations’ are (for the Big Bang and suchlike) this should be a doozy!!!!