(November 15, 2011 at 9:18 am)Rhythm Wrote: I don't think you've accurately represented the field of plausible explanations with only these two options.What is the third one?
(November 15, 2011 at 9:18 am)Rhythm Wrote: I would readily agree that the traditions that sprung up in and around the fertile crescent are littered with similarity. I invoke a simpler and more well demonstrated explanation for those similarities (contact and cultural transfer).
What about Far East and the Americas?
(November 15, 2011 at 9:18 am)Rhythm Wrote: Fun. The flood narrative could easily be explained as neanderthals stealing women before a warming period in which home sapiens sapiens were the winner. The problem in doing so is that it would require that you bend not only the myth but our knowledge of prehistory, all of this when simpler explanations are offered.
Fun. Neanderthals were exterminated 20k years before the sea level even begun to rise.
(November 15, 2011 at 9:18 am)Rhythm Wrote: (My entire family is filled with red heads, does that mean I can claim neanderthals as my ancestor definitively?
We have the same problem because when spread the palm of my hand measures 27.7 cm.
But you have it all wrong. The flow of Neanderthal genes went one way: From Neanderthals to moderns and not vice versa. Evidence that the mating was forced. Who forced it? Who was the rapist? The victor Hss, of course, not Neanderthal the underdog.
