THE NEANDERTHAL?

Some hold up the Neanderthal as our evolutionary ancestor or as an alternative humanoid sub-group, although less intelligent. However, Bruce Malone, founder of Search for the Truth, writes:

·       Yet over the last few decades, anthropologists have discovered that Neanderthals demonstrated sophisticated human behavior.

·       The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has recently found and analyzed a specialized bone tool used in leather working at two French Neanderthal sites.  Microscopic analysis of the tools revealed wear and tear consistent with today’s tools used to make supple, lustrous hides.  In other words, Neanderthals were also great leatherworkers!  Once again, science is confirming the biblical viewpoint.  Neanderthals were not some primitive, subhuman creature, but fully human nomads in Europe that lived a rugged life during the Ice Age.

Why then their slightly different cranial structure? For one thing, this shouldn’t suggest that they were any less human, than the slight cranial differences between Caucasian, Black, or Asian humans should suggest.

In the case of the Neanderthal, their thicker skulls might simply be a reflection of the fact that they had lived longer or that the environment had been different than today’s.