RE: Was Jesus Neanderthal by 1 to 4 per cent?
February 18, 2012 at 3:59 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2012 at 4:01 pm by Abracadabra.)
If homo sapiens and neanderthals were close enough genetically to breed, then could it even be said that they were 'separate species' to begin with?
It seem to me that the reductionism and dichotomy that western science attempts to push onto everything via its means of classifying things into distinct categories is a superficial means of measurement to begin with. What is probably far more true is that there never was any cut-and-dried line between two very distinct species of hominids, and what is far more likely to have been the case is that the distinction between what we have classified as being "Homo sapiens" and "Neanderthals" is probably far more fuzzy that western scientists would like to believe.
So I'm not the least bit surprised that there would be overlaps between hominids that we classify as "homo sapiens" and hominids that we classify as "Neanderthal". Nature isn't likely to have classified things in the same neat and orderly way that western scientists like to classify things.
It seem to me that the reductionism and dichotomy that western science attempts to push onto everything via its means of classifying things into distinct categories is a superficial means of measurement to begin with. What is probably far more true is that there never was any cut-and-dried line between two very distinct species of hominids, and what is far more likely to have been the case is that the distinction between what we have classified as being "Homo sapiens" and "Neanderthals" is probably far more fuzzy that western scientists would like to believe.
So I'm not the least bit surprised that there would be overlaps between hominids that we classify as "homo sapiens" and hominids that we classify as "Neanderthal". Nature isn't likely to have classified things in the same neat and orderly way that western scientists like to classify things.
Christian - A moron who believes that an all-benevolent God can simultaneously be a hateful jealous male-chauvinistic pig.
Wiccan - The epitome of cerebral evolution having mastered the magical powers of the universe and is in eternal harmony with the mind of God.
Atheist - An ill-defined term that means something different to everyone who uses it.
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Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Clearly Jesus (a fictitious character or otherwise) will forgive people if they merely know not what they do
For the Bible Tells us so!
Wiccan - The epitome of cerebral evolution having mastered the magical powers of the universe and is in eternal harmony with the mind of God.
Atheist - An ill-defined term that means something different to everyone who uses it.
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Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Clearly Jesus (a fictitious character or otherwise) will forgive people if they merely know not what they do
For the Bible Tells us so!
