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To: medved
"Studies of neanderthal DNA indicate that it was about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee, clearly explaining why there was never any evidence of interbreeding. We could no more interbreed with them than we could with horses and, further, all scientists agree, there is no way we are descended from them."

So, how do you explain the 'hybrid' skeleton that was found? (No DNA)

37 posted on 10/04/2001 4:52:29 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
"Studies of neanderthal DNA indicate that it was about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee, clearly explaining why there was never any evidence of interbreeding. We could no more interbreed with them than we could with horses and, further, all scientists agree, there is no way we are descended from them."

So, how do you explain the 'hybrid' skeleton that was found? (No DNA)

One freak skeleton could best be explained as a birth defect. This is the standard problem with evolutionism; the theory absolutely demands that there should be many thousands of such skeletons, and so they search for a hundred years and finally manage to come up with one deformed neanderthal skeleton and proclaim victory. Likewise, according to evolutionary doctrine, the vast bulk of all fossils should be intermediate forms and, after combintg the Earth for 140 years, they come up with a little collection of 100 or so freaks, all of which could be explained without resort to evolutionism, and proclaim themselves winners.

What'w wrong with the picture? Discover Magazine ran a big article on the problem, and this was back around September of 96 I believe, which noted that neanderthals and modern humans had lived in close proximity for long periods of time particularly in the levant, and yet there was no evidence of crossbreeding whatsoever which was totally contrary to what you would expect. The question they asked was how was it possible that the two groups lived close together like that without sex ever apparently happening even once, noting that sex is generally a more powerful stimulus than any form of racism or tribalism.

Basically, that is the reality of the situation, and not the one freak skeleton.

41 posted on 10/04/2001 5:46:20 AM PDT by medved
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