@ Petr (serious question)

[Jimbo Gomez]

This is not a thread to challenge your creationist views. I know you acknowledge that species can go extinct. There is evidence that the Neandertahl species existed, and that it had close genetic ties to our species. Without going into how they came on this planet, we'll assume they were created by God for the sake of this argument, do you think that they were human and that they had a soul? Or were they just less hairy chimpansees?

[Petr]

There is evidence that the Neandertahl species existed, and that it had close genetic ties to our species. Without going into how they came on this planet, we'll assume they were created by God for the sake of this argument, do you think that they were human and that they had a soul? Or were they just less hairy chimpansees?
Neanderthals were in all likelihood normal human beings. They have just been badmouthed by evolutionists, who are even themselves admitting these days that the primitivity of Neanderthals has been greatly exaggerated:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v18/i4/neanderthal.asp


"The Neandertal people also had a sense of the after-life—they buried their dead with ceremony and arranged flowers around the bodies of their dead. A pollen analysis of one grave from the Shanidar cave in the Zagros Mountains in Iraq has revealed the presence of yarrow, cornflower, St Barnaby’s thistle, ragwort, grape hyacinth, hollyhock, and woody horsetail. Most of these plants are known to have herbal and medicinal properties, so it appears that the Neandertals had some knowledge of medicine.

None of this is surprising when we consider that they were not primitive evolutionary ‘links’. They were people, forced to live in harsh conditions, after the dispersal of humanity at Babel, during the great post-Flood Ice Age.3"


"Readers are probably aware of how the Neanderthal finds were grossly distorted and exaggerated to make them appear ape-like (even ‘Time-Life’ now admits this freely)."

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v1/i2/cromagnon.asp


Petr

[Jimbo Gomez]

Oh, I know they weren't as primitive as they are portrayed. I don't think they had the capacity that homo sapiens has though.

Thanks for the answer.

[albion]

http://tory.woolnet.net/images/2005/9/30/looterguy13.jpg

[Kodos]

I would have thought a creationist would have the position they were one of the "abominations" destroyed during the flood.

[Björn]

I've heard theories that Neanderthal cross-bred with southern hemisphere groups. A friend of mine is very supportive of this notion and practically takes it as a creation myth.

[Lenny]

Hey Old Pete Longstreet, how do you explain the fact that they discovered human bones that date back thousands, hundreds of thousands of years then :confused: Even millions of years-old bones of human-like creatures have been discovered. This is way before the Earth is supposed to have been created according to your supposed theory of how old Earth is

[Keystone]

Neanderthals were in all likelihood normal human beings. They have just been badmouthed by evolutionists, who are even themselves admitting these days that the primitivity of Neanderthals has been greatly exaggerated:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v18/i4/neanderthal.asp


"The Neandertal people also had a sense of the after-life—they buried their dead with ceremony and arranged flowers around the bodies of their dead. A pollen analysis of one grave from the Shanidar cave in the Zagros Mountains in Iraq has revealed the presence of yarrow, cornflower, St Barnaby’s thistle, ragwort, grape hyacinth, hollyhock, and woody horsetail. Most of these plants are known to have herbal and medicinal properties, so it appears that the Neandertals had some knowledge of medicine.

None of this is surprising when we consider that they were not primitive evolutionary ‘links’. They were people, forced to live in harsh conditions, after the dispersal of humanity at Babel, during the great post-Flood Ice Age.3"


"Readers are probably aware of how the Neanderthal finds were grossly distorted and exaggerated to make them appear ape-like (even ‘Time-Life’ now admits this freely)."

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v1/i2/cromagnon.asp


Petr
I happen to agree with much of what Ken Ham and AIG proposes.

[Jimbo Gomez]

I've heard theories that Neanderthal cross-bred with southern hemisphere groups. A friend of mine is very supportive of this notion and practically takes it as a creation myth.

They only lived in Europe and in Palestine so I think that would be nonsensical.