Genes Linked to Self-Awareness in Modern Humans Were Less Common in Neandertals & Chimps

[Oneiric1975]

Let's go over this lesson again:

God warns His people not to sin, or else:

Deuteronomy 28:58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

The people sin:

God sends a bone-altering plague on the people (see Psalm 38).

Paleoarchaeologists mistake those people for Neanderthals.

That's a stretch. Almost kind of feels "made up". I'm sure it works well for you and your particular sect to interpolate like that.

In short, there is no such thing as a Neanderthal, or Cro-magnon, or anything else like that.

You hold forth so confidently. Proverbs 16:18.

 

[AV1611VET]

That's a stretch.

Is it now?

What's your take on Neanderthals and Cro-magna?

 

[Oneiric1975]

Is it now?

What's your take on Neanderthals and Cro-magna?

What the basic science shows and is reflected in the fossil and genetic record.

Of course I am not beholden to make reality comport to a book written before all the data was in.

ALSO: I don't have anything barring me from enjoying metaphor. Not everything has to be literal to me.

 

[AV1611VET]

What the basic science shows and is reflected in the fossil and genetic record.

Of course I am not beholden to make reality comport to a book written before all the data was in.

Okay.