The Problem with Christians

[AJW333]

The Neanderthal narrative has changed a lot over the years. Initially he was very ape-like and couldn't speak since he didn't have the necessary physical attributes. That's all changed and it is now considered that Neanderthals were able to speak and in many other ways were much closer to humans than previously considered. So is it correct to consider them a different species to human beings? Probably not.

No, it wouldn't be correct, but only because individuals of the species Homo neanderthalensis were human beings - for the same reason that ostriches are birds. Every species of the genus Homo is human. Thus it would be and indeed is perfectly correct to consider Neanderthals a different species to Homo sapiens sapiens. You really need to be more precise in your use of language when talking about these subjects.

"A species is often defined as a group of individuals that actually or potentially interbreed in nature."
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_41

If neanderthals and regular humans interbred, then wouldn't that make them the same species?

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If the DNA mutations aren't random, what controls them?

My boy... is anything random?

And did I not say "bound by chemistry"?

If nothing is random then entropy doesn't exist.

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This represents a complete distortion of the mathematics. When fertilizing an egg cell with a sperm cell, it makes no difference which sperm fertilizes which egg. Any combination will do.

Yes, it does matter in the sense that you are you, exactly as you are, which I think was Julia's point.  But anyway...so where your Nobel Prize?  Hell, where is your Templeton Prize?  I mean since you, AJW333 of AF.org possess the scientific holy grail of proof of design.  Oh wait...don't answer that yet...let me know when I can expect the deluge of conspiracy theories; I'd like to put my galoshes on.

Can we just deal with the numbers?