What do you (Evolutionists and those of you who believe in ID) think of this...odd....little article?

Question

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243803,00.html

Answer 1

Oh look... more proof of evolution.

I'm sure Creationists will be sticking their collective heads in the sand any moment now.

Answer 2

The interbreeding has been speculated for about 30 years now and I believe have already had proof. Fox just likes to recycle information. Some scientists believe that people today may have some genes from neanderthals.

You do realize that the skull proves evolutionary theory?

Just because the article says it was carbon dated doesn't mean that was the only method they used. radiocarbon dating is fairly accurate given rare environmental standards. Even so they test the dirt they test the rocks etc...

If you're going to dought dinosaurs than you might as well dought vaccination since you probably have no idea how that works either. How about we just never visit the doctor when we find a lump in our neck. We do realize cause and effect but, so little in between. Maybe cancer is a hoax for drug company to earn big capital.

Answer 3

The source makes it dubious. But, if true, it only indicates what some anthropologists have already suggested; that these two classes of hominid interbred and the Homo Sapien genetics was dominant, eventually leading to the disappearance of Neandethal characteristics, The same thing is suggested by the finding of a young boys skeleton in Portugal.

Answer 4

It wouldn't surprise me either way. Neanderthals and "modern" humans coexisted in Europe for millennia. Interbreeding has been speculated for some time. Whether the skull reflects this or something else, I will leave to those much more knowledgeable than me to decide. Either way, it would not affect evolutionary theory. At most it would argue for Neanderthal's classification as Homo Sapien Neanderthalis rather than Homo Neanderthalis, something that was already debated before this discovery.

Answer 5

It being Fox News, I'm already a bit skeptical, but I'll bite.

[Toddles of to read aforementioned article]

That's fine, but it's generally accepted that homo sapiens and neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis) are two divergent species, not species along the same branch of evolution. Basically neanderthal man and modern man both evolved from a common ancestor, lived on the planet together, and then the neanderthal species was driven to extinction by modern man.

It's interesting that they could interbreed though.

Answer 6

Considering that the concept of carbon dating is based on the fallacy of a constant amount of C-14 in the atmosphere, and the fallacy of a constant ratio between C-12 and C-14, to believe that this skull, dated by radiocarbon dating, is actually the age that the article claims it to be, is to agree with fallacy.

Answer 7

I think it shows that humans and neandertals interbred. It shows that both are entirely separate species as, if they were not, we would never be able to tell the skull was a hybrid.

Frankly, I have no idea what you're getting at here.

Answer 8

When I saw my first Neanderthal facial reconstruction, the first thought I had was that I'd seen him before. As a Greek fisherman. Neanderthals are just one variation on humans.

Answer 9

It may be from Fox News, but there is other evidence that Neanderthals and Cro Magnon humans did coexist.

Answer 10

evidence showing that evolution occurs slowly... humans and Neanderthals interbreeding is no new theory, though. Some even believe that there are still Neanderthals in existence today.

Answer 11

Each fossil / bone is a link between its ancestors and descendants.

What's why the term 'missing link' shows a lack of understanding.