WISE MAN OF NEANDER

Here he is, rearranged!...THE original ‘Mr. Neanderthal' discovered in 1856 by quarry workers in the Feldhofer Cave off the Neander Gorge, 13 km east of Dusseldorf, Germany. 
Pioneer Joachim Neander (1650-1680) settled in this tal (or valley), hence ‘Neandertal’.

Similar skeletal remains have been found across Europe, Middle East, West Asia and North Africa since then (with the same average height as modern man!), so paleontologists have given these 'cave men' the fancy handle: Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, which actually means: 'wise man of Neander'. 

We’re supposed to be a lot wiser so we now get the distinction of: Homo sapiens sapiens.

We are told that these people hail from the Late Pleistocene period and have been extinct for at least 33,000 years. Check out the ‘scientific evidence ' for this claim yourself but be sure to omit the imagination, artistic license, bias, prejudice....

The Neanderthal was at first portrayed by the media as an ignorant, brutish caveman but further digging has revealed that these people used stone tools, controlled fire, crafted hunting implements, used cooking utensils, wore jewelry and cosmetics, appreciated ornaments, buried their dead, played musical instruments, used symbolism, even had superglue..... - add a canoe and it could be a modern day camping ground!  
After all, if your family has been scattered by language confusion (Babel in Genesis 11:9) and is forced to make a new start in a foreign land, with only the clothes on your back and a few portable implements, where would you take shelter during an ice age?.....in a cave?

“Oh, but these relics uniquely exhibit occipital buns, prognathism, rachitis, supra-orbital tori, taurodontis…..”                                                                            

Well professor, we live in the real world, not academia, and we can walk down the main street any day of the week and see all of that in people with different shaped skulls, or protruding jaws, or bent leg bones, even elderly folk with prominent brow ridges and we might even see fused teeth.  (We have even had, not one but two, dear old neighbours with spinal deformity, forcing them to virtually walk like your stooped ‘knuckle-walkers’!)

So why this article?  Harvard scientist George Church is reportedly flagging the opportunity for a woman to be impregnated with a cloned Neanderthal embryo.                                  

Can DNA survive 30,000 plus years?  Who cares?                                             

If you look up ’Neanderthal’ in any reputable dictionary you will find the word before it is: ‘Nazi’ - the Homo sapiens sapiens who experimented on the defenseless innocent – and largely got away with it.                             

On behalf of IOPNA readers, what we do not want to see is an innocent cloned child used as a guinea-pig in more ‘scientific’ child abuse.

Acknowledgements: 

Dr. Carl Wieland, One Human Family, Creation Book Publishers, Atlanta 2011 

Philip Bell, Apemen: Missing Links & The Bible, Creation Ministries International  

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