Over a century ago, evolutionists taught that Neanderthals were sub-human brutes.1
But in the intervening decades, as more research and discoveries have been made, Neanderthals are believed to be fully human, able to interbreed with Homo sapiens. DNA analysis confirms this.2
A recent news article stated,
We could say humans once procreated with humans, since the scientific evidence has shown repeatedly that Neanderthals (and a human group called the Denisovans discovered from bones and a tooth found in Altai Mountains, Siberia4) were 100% human.
In fact, an evolutionary paleoanthropologist stated, “The irony is that the scientific community is going to have to come round to the acceptance that the Denisovans and the Neandertals also belonged to the species which we all call Homo sapiens.”5 Finlayson was correct.
If one wants to see what Homo neaderthalensis looks like, he simply looks at Nikolai Valuev, a member of the Russian parliament, who has enlarged brow ridges and a sloping forehead. Indeed, Homo sapien skulls come in all shapes and sizes, but they are all people.
Ancient DNA shows that Neandertals and Denisovans have always been people.
Then what happened to the Neanderthals? An evolutionary article states,
What does humans procreating with Neanderthals have to do with the theory of human evolution? Nothing. Man and woman were created by God8 in the beginning—no sub-human ancestry.9
References
1. As seen in a drawing by Czech artist Frantizek Kupka in the Illustrated London News of 1909.
2. Paabo, S. 2014. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes. New York: Basic Books, 237.
3. Lee, A. Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize for medicine for discovery that humans procreated with Neanderthals. Posted on msn.com October 3, 2022, accessed October 4, 2022.
4. Allaby, M. 2020. Dictionary of Zoology. Oxford University Press. 181.
5. Finlayson, C. All change: theories of human ancestry get an overhaul. BBC News. December 31, 2010.
6. Thomas, B. New Finds Reveal Fully-Human Neandertal. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org August 25, 2014, accessed October 3, 2022
7. Villa, P. and W. Roebroeks. Neandertal Demise: An Archaeological Analysis of the Modern Human Superiority Complex. PLOS ONE. Posted on plos.org April 30, 2014, accessed October 3, 2022.
8. Genesis 2.
9. Rupe, C. and J. Sanford. 2017. Contested Bones. FMS Publications.
* Dr. Sherwin is a news writer at the Institute for Creation Research. He earned an M.A. in zoology from the University of Northern Colorado and received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Pensacola Christian College.
