Creation vs. Evolution - a snippet (the neanderthal)

Creation vs. Evolution

(a small sample of the 2+ hour audio program)

Information given to us by evolution scientists are far from
complete, even deliberately altered.

"What? I can't believe it?"

Let me give you an example. Take the Neanderthal for instance.
These are pre-human (human as we know it) beings, right?

What if I were to tell you they were not as dissimilar from us as we are lead to believe? The normal belief by the general public is they looked somewhat human, walking on two legs, etc., but very little high level thinking, somewhere between animal and human mental abilities. They can make some rudimentary tools, hunt and more or less create a cumminty, but didn't quite cut it as fully human.

Does that seem about right?

Evidence shows something very different! The differences in
apperence are simple variations, no different than any other
variation within humanity. Many people found to be existing
today, or within recent centuries, have greater differences than the Neanderthal, but are not seen as sub-human, but fully
human.

The mental and social abilities of the Neanderthal are no less of any other ancient culture. The fossil records at neanderthal sites show civilized culture and behavior. Human structural differences can easily be contributed to geological location, not an evolutionary process. That line of physical differences gets blurred as you near other civilizations in Europe and the south east. Some of the bony features are also found in a percentage of present-day Europeans.

The Neanderthal sites show that bodies were buried upon
death, a religious act in itself that requires a higher level of awareness. Animals do not bury their dead. The burials are also very telling. Bodies were buried with care, as well with objects such as flowers, hand made items out of animal bone, and other items that seem to be of a personal nature to the
individuals, a tradition shared by many cultures today as
"grave goods."

Also found at these burial sites are Neanderthal skeletons buried along side (in the same grave) as what would be thought of as modern human remains, evidence that these people lived and worked together, and even married, since the plots, ground or cave burial, would likely be family burials.

Found at these sites were items such as advanced hunting tools
made of different materials, hand carved items of stone, and
other objects that reflect a normal, civilized hunting community of the time, including some pieces of art made of bone and ivory.

One Neanderthal has been found in a tomb which contained
iron arrowheads and a suite of chain-mail armor. I'm no expert
on Chain-mail armor, but I don't think it goes that far back.

Excavations also show the presence of walled living areas and other structures showing their social capacity within the Neanderthal communities.

Most people don't know about these Neanderthal findings. The
information that reaches the general public is only that which
supports the evolutionary belief that these people were not fully human, but more of a social animal.

If you put your faith into the scientists to give you true
information without bias, you may have made a mistake.

Creation vs. Evolution: Layman's Case For Creation.
Found at Scribbler's Lounge.

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Neanderthal vs. Cro-Magnon

Paleoanthropologists argue that modern genes "derive exclusively" from the African ancestors of modern humans, and not from Neanderthals, based on genetic studies practiced on a few Neanderthal fossils.
But other anthropologists, contend that modern humans actually carry at least some genes of Neanderthals mixed in with their own.

It would be simplistic and easier to the mind to think that our Cro-Magnons ancestors were just better fitted for survival, and therefore we were the “chosen one” race, that overtook the ape-like Neanderthals.
Anyone who has visited Europe (specially the Mediterranean) has inevitably come across human specimens high on Neanderthal genes. North and South America have their share also, and the African and Asian continents hold sparse communities of almost pure Neanderthals and hybrids.
Carleton Coon dived into that unfortunate comparison in what he called the "Alpha and Omega" of living humans in his book The Origin of Races. Coon, also memorably remarked that a cleaned-up and soberly dressed Neanderthal would hardly merit a second glance on the New York subway.

When animal and plant breeders cross different species of plants and animals the resulting hybrid offspring has qualities and characteristics possessed by neither parent. This outcome is known as ‘hybrid vigor’

Read this:
Neanderthal vs. Cro-Magnon

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