What does the society have to say about neanderthal man?
by LunaFing 26 Replies latest jw friends
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transhuman68
Hiya....Your posts are blank....If you are using IE 9, click on the 'compatibility view' button at the top of the screen.
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Amelia Ashton
Quite a lot if you have a Watchtower CD rom.
After I stopped loling at the ridiculousness of their explanation of neanderthal man I think that showing the Charities Commission the quality of education the Witnesses are engaged in should be enough to have their charitable status revoked with immediate effect!
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cedars
From memory, they say that they were exactly the same as normal homo sapiens, and not a link with modern man.
Cedars
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blondie
*** ce chap. 7 p. 95 par. 34 “Ape-Men”—What Were They? ***
Neanderthal man (named after the Neander district in Germany where the first fossil was found) was undoubtedly human. At first he was pictured as bent over, stupid looking, hairy and apelike. Now it is known that this mistaken reconstruction was based on a fossil skeleton badly deformed by disease. Since then, many Neanderthal fossils have been found, confirming that he was not much different from modern humans. In his book Ice, Fred Hoyle stated: “There is no evidence that Neanderthal man was in any way inferior to ourselves.”51 As a result, recent drawings of Neanderthals have taken on a more modern look.
Another fossil type frequently encountered in scientific literature is Cro-Magnon man. It was named for the locality in southern France where his bones were first unearthed. These specimens “were so virtually indistinguishable from those of today that even the most skeptical had to concede that they were humans,” said the book Lucy.52
Thus, the evidence is clear that belief in “ape-men” is unfounded. Instead, humans have all the earmarks of being created—separate and distinct from any animal. Humans reproduce only after their own kind. They do so today and have always done so in the past.
*** g81 6/22 pp. 14-15 Were There “Cavemen”? ***NEANDERTHAL MAN is also one of the better-known parts of the so-called evolutionary chain. When the first skull portion was found one scientist called it the skullcap of an idiot. Gradually interpretations changed as more bones were discovered. From early reconstructions that showed Neanderthals to be stooped and apelike, with long arms dangling down in front, we now have books that say that “Neanderthal probably did not look very different from some people of today.” One encyclopedia now says that they were “completely human, fully erect.” What a change! Comparing the illustrations in various books will show the adjustments in the claimed appearance of Neanderthal man. And rather than his being an idiot, it is now admitted that Neanderthal man had a larger brain than most modern men!
One reason why some scientists thought of Neanderthal as squat and bent is most interesting. An early skeleton found had bowed legs and a bent form. Of course, since they were looking for apelike creatures to fit their theory, how easy it was to make a mistake! Later, upon further examination, it was shown that the skeleton was deformed due to arthritis!
Nor is that all. In their efforts to make their finds look like a link between ape and man, when Neanderthal’s foot bones were first reconstructed by evolutionists, “they were made to look like an ape’s,” says one book. But the same book admits that the feet actually “look and functioned very [much] like those of modern man.” Look at the picture (opposite page) of feet. Do you think they look enough alike to conclude mistakenly that they are the same?
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Flat_Accent
If you have a copy of the Orange brochure they released in 2010: 'The Origin of Life: 5 Questions Worth Asking' there's a section in there on Neanderthals.
The opinion of those 'scientific experts' at the Society think that any missing link between humans and the common anscestor are just humans, which kind of flies in the face of DNA evidence which suggests that even though Neanderthals exhibited human traits such as making tools and burying the dead, they were not human at all. Linky
Here's a nifty video that deals with the Neanderthal argument
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LunaFing
Testing, testing.......hope the compatability button worked.
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LunaFing
Flat_Accent, that was a great video! I will look up this guys other videos.
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LunaFing
What I really want to know is what the WT says about Neanderthal man. Do they believe in it? What do they have to say about the scientific proof that we weren't the only humanoids?