RE: Was Jesus Neanderthal by 1 to 4 per cent?
February 18, 2012 at 8:34 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2012 at 8:37 pm by Justtristo.)
(February 18, 2012 at 4:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I fundamentally disagree. We have evidence from Homo Erectus skeletons which indicate that individuals with serious fractures survived for the bones to heal. This is indicative of some social unit which tended to the injured man and enabled him to survive.
Human culture - be it HE, HNS or HSS - interfered with evolution by natural selection. Lions live in structured prides, too. Yet when one is injured in a hunt it lives or dies on its own.
There is also evidence of homo heidelbergensis and neanderthalensis burying their dead with grave goods. I believe that the evidence that would show that both Homo Heidelbergensis and Neanderthalensis had symbolic thought (probably not as developed as ours), along with relatively complex language does not get preserved in the fossil record very much.
For example; it is very probable that Homo Erectus in Asia used tools made out of bamboo. However bamboo does not get preserved in the fossil record unlike stone and bone. It was a mircale that in Germany archeologists found preserved wooden projectile spears dating back 400,000 years.
Anyway, Creationist organisations like Creation Ministries International and Answers in Genesis believe that Homo Neanderthalensis was just a another variety of our species.
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