Little nit pick. Neanderthals weren’t a separate species from modern humans. You can tell because they were able to interbreed.
Yes, that is the mentality of a lot of them, for sure.
Well, he lied about one thing.
Yes, I know that there’s a retroactive work-around, and it’s not an upsetting lie, but it’s there.
How near the equator is near the equator? Iraq is a bit closer than Europe is.
I think Gobleki Tepe strongly suggests that, long ago, that entire region was probably much more hospitable to Neanderthals than it would be today.
I don’t get the comparison? Gobleki Tepe was built 20,000 years after the extinction of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans.
The impression I get is that the region was more or less suitable for supporting hunter-gather tribes up to around the time of the stones, and experienced desertification possibly in part due to poorly manage agriculture. If it was verdant savannah/forest 20Kya, it was probably that way for thousands of years prior.
What’s ironic is that in the garden of evil, all animals were plant-eaters. It wasn’t until after the fall that they began killing and eating each other. Don’t ask me what anteaters ate *ante *eating ants.
As far as Adam & Eve being created after the creation of humankind in chapter 1, that’s a misreading of the text. The creation story is told twice in a row, first in ch 1 and then again in ch 2. These represent two creation traditions that were edited together much later, during the building of the second temple. Although I’m not sure how YEC fundamentalists view it.
This “naming of all the animals” bit-Do we have any idea how long it took?
Blueberries. That’s why to this very day anteaters are blue.
Well, the numerical prosimian’s estimate of 2 seconds doesn’t seem realistic, so let’s say that Adam took 10 seconds to name each creature presented before them, and each one could be presented instantly. Let’s say that Adam named only vertebrates. Going by this list (authority–it was the first one I googled up) we get around 60,000 species. So 600,000 seconds, or almost exactly 1 week (assuming no breaks.) Strip out the fish and it is 3 1/2 days. Do everything on the list and it is almost exactly 6 months (again, taking no breaks at all.) Of course, if you go by this YEC reference, only examples at the family level existed back then, then (apparently) immediately after the flood went into super-hyper-mega-macroevolution.
Well, no, that doesn’t work. It contradicts that way aging of bones works. As we get older, the bones change in some very specific ways – but they don’t alter shape, they don’t grow new processes, the joints at the ends don’t move, etc.
An old man’s skull looks different from a young man’s skull…but that simply can’t be extrapolated to make a modern skull look like a Neanderthal (let alone Australopithecus.)
(It’s a little like asking great age to turn a human hand into a human foot. The hand might get gnarled and knotted and even twisted…but the thumb isn’t going to migrate into the position of the great toe.)
No, but there is a dramatic recreation.
Is this canon, or just fanciful interpretation?
Which led to Moody Bible’s Dr. Rimmer translation of the Hebrew as a release of, i.e., release from restraint of something already created." That allows creation to take place at one time and the reveal at another.
I’ve heard that a lot, and was taught it in Lutheran school. I’d say it’s a pretty mainstream interpretation, just like the theory that prior to The Fall, there was no variable, violent weather, but a gentle, uniform mist covering the whole Earth, providing just the right amount of moisture for everything.
Peter Hadfield had a devastating take down of a creationist “educational” video about Dinosaurs. The makers of it even had a computer generated velociraptor that just playfully licked the “explorer” character. In the video it was explained that the teeth of all the dinosaurs were actually of creatures that ate plants.
One can not see the explanation of how that was not credible by looking at the biology of modern predators because, last time I checked, it was taken down. It seems that the delicate creationist snowflakes that made that silly video that made all dinosaurs vegetarians called the Youtube censors because mean Hadfield had infringed on their copy rights.
Luckily, commenting on museum presentations of the same idea is still ok for others:
Both. The passages are there, but are vague enough to allow for multiple interpretations (as per usual.) Here is the YEC interpretation.
Sounds good to me.
Twas never something I really believed myself, just thought it was relevant to the conversation. At least I can have that thought in my head taken away!
Not to mention that there are multiple specimens of Neanderthal children, including this one, this one, this one, and this one.
Dwarves-every single one of them.