How do the Neanderthals fit into the scheme of things in creation science or creationism?

Answer 1

Since they became extinct over 10,000 years ago, the oldest possible age of the earth according to fundamental religions, they never existed. The mountains of evidence purporting their existence was fabricated by god to 'test' our faith. No matter how many times I read that, I am freshly amazed that there are actually people in the year 2007 gullible enough to swallow that.

Answer 2

Why don't you go ask a Jew, since the Jews wrote that book and every other part of the Bible all the dumb Christian conservatives take literally word for word. Why don't the Jews start protesting every new discovery from the solar system to contraception? I mean, it's all in THEIR Bible too and THEY wrote it! Jesus wasn't a conservative Christian either.... I don't think he'd be against science either, seeing how he built things for a living when he wasn't out spreading Judaism.... yeah thats right. He may have claimed to be the son of God but he never actually tried to rename Israel's entire religion after himself.

Every Christian science controversy is the result of either church officials who can't comprehend what a metaphor is, or some arbitrary rule that was got made up long after Jesus by someone who had no connection to what Jesus or the Israelis were actually about back then.

BTW I'm not sure about neanderthals but I do know that humans and chimps are 96% identical in DNA structure. The human skull stops growing at an earlier phase than the chimp's, allowing the brain to grow much larger. The other thing is that when cavemen discovered how to cook with fire, they became the only species on the planet to massively consume cooked meat rather than raw red meat. This is incredibly higher in nutritional value and also helped human brain's develop to the current size. Neanders and Hobbits I believe are just other biological offshoots, like the way there were a bunch of dinosaurs that resembled T-rex but were smaller or somehow weaker.

Answer 3

creation science?

Isn't that one of those oxymorons?

Neanderthals don't fit into the scheme of things in creationism. That's why creationism doesn't meet the common sense test IMO.

Answer 4

Another trick of the Devil's??

(of course, when science demonstrates that we all have some Neanderthal DNA in us, we will have the last laugh...)

Answer 5

Science hasn't reached the level of explaining divinity fingers in science as of yet , hence I'd say there is fingers in the absence of the contrary.

Answer 6

Best bet seems to be they suffered from a deficiency of vitamins c and d during an ice age. As you are probably aware the earth has had a number of temperature fluctuotions since the flood.

Answer 7

Church people are perplexed.

They quote the Bible verse about giants, but the Neanderthals were not giants.

Neaderthals don't fit, and it is bothersome for church people -- but do you have to rub it in?

Answer 8

They don't really. I've heard two different arguments on this site concerning fossil bones and records. They were placed on earth by either the Devil to put us astray, or God to test our faith ...

Answer 9

Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
Gen 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Gen 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Answer 10

They don't fit. Christians would prefer to believe they never existed.