Neanderthal – Uncommon Descent

What difference does Neanderthal ancestry make?

Researchers are not sure but the fact that we are even wondering shows how much has changed and helps us understand why doubts about textbook Darwinism are becoming respectable.

Seekers JVL, Let me just try and catch up with you here. what your saying or implying rather, is that you... – Rob Sheldon on the current trend...
ET JVL: Another way archaeology is not at all like ID: archaeologists are always looking for new data and examples. IDists... – Rob Sheldon on the current trend...
ET JVL: You’d have to have been living in a cave without the internet for the past 30 years to think... – Rob Sheldon on the current trend...
ET I think it is sort of pathetic that some people want to be related to apes. – Some at-your-fingertips stats on human–chimp similarity
Querius Origenes @165, Kairosfocus, I am sorry but the whole subjective objective project doesn’t make sense to me. The underlying assumption... – Is there such a thing as...
Origenes Kairosfocus, to be clear, are you saying that there are two catagories of statements, namely subjective and objective, and that... – Is there such a thing as...
bornagain77 Darwinists, with their reductive materialistic framework, simply have no 'beyond space and time' cause to appeal to in order to... – Some at-your-fingertips stats on human–chimp similarity
bornagain77 Moreover, on top of that rather dramatic, over the top, falsification of the Darwinian expectation that the genetic evidence should... – Some at-your-fingertips stats on human–chimp similarity
bornagain77 The Darwinian claim that humans and chimps are related via common ancestry is very similar to a chemist discovering that... – Some at-your-fingertips stats on human–chimp similarity
Fasteddious Gratuitous references to "evolution" and "climate change" in unrelated articles or papers is just virtue signalling, an attempt to gain... – Science writer asks: Why are medical...
zweston If you have no progress in origin of life, and macroevolution via random selection and genetic mutation is indicating every... – Science writer asks: Why are medical...
Fasteddious Sci-fi author Adrian Tchaikovsky has written some fascination stories about humans working out how to communicate with intelligent spiders and... – At Mind Matters News, some fun:...
jerry Who’s furious – apart from those who take great umbrage at the very idea they might be kin to apes?... – Some at-your-fingertips stats on human–chimp similarity
Seekers JVL, Are you actually looking to dialogue or simply to have an idealogical rant. – Rob Sheldon on the current trend...
JVL Another way archaeology is not at all like ID: archaeologists are always looking for new data and examples. They are... – Rob Sheldon on the current trend...
Seversky Who's furious - apart from those who take great umbrage at the very idea they might be kin to apes? – Some at-your-fingertips stats on human–chimp similarity
kairosfocus Origines, we have to be subjects to be able to know but not everything we perceive or believe is knowledge,... – Is there such a thing as...
JVL ET: And that has nothing to do with the subject at hand. What is wrong with you? Just saying that... – Rob Sheldon on the current trend...
ET Origenes @ 10 see Awstar @ 5 – Some at-your-fingertips stats on human–chimp similarity
ET seversky: The claim is not that humans are descended from chimps or any other modern ape, the claim is that... – Some at-your-fingertips stats on human–chimp similarity
ET JVL: Different designers would have different capabilities and that would affect or influence what they could accomplish and when. And... – Rob Sheldon on the current trend...