Genesis Impact Clip - Neanderthals

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Natural History Museums everywhere display line-ups of ape-to-human icons that supposedly show how humans evolved from ape-like creatures millions of years ago. The last step in this line up are Neanderthals, holding the “40,000 to 400,000 years ago” time slot. Just decades ago, Neanderthals were regarded in museums and textbooks as gorilla-like cavemen. This is because their fossils were viewed through an evolutionary lens, being framed as some type of “last step” between ape-like creatures and humans. See here for our technical video: https://genesisapologetics.com/neanderthals/ See the full "Genesis Impact" movie here: www.genesisimpact.com

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I suppose you know all about the next in the evolutionary lineup,
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Neanderthals. Have they always been regarded as some type of evidence for supporting the idea that humans are evolving?
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Just decades ago, they were regarded in textbooks and museums as gorilla -like cavemen. But now, we know that they had families with humans.
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That's probably because they were humans. Yes, DNA samples extracted from them show that they were basically human, and we've found their remains buried together with humans, showing that they lived together, worked together, had kids together, and were accepted as members of the same family, clan, and community with humans.
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Neanderthal burial sites include jewelry and purses, artwork, weaponry, and some grave sites even have clues of burial rituals.
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And in fact, they've recently found the Neanderthals' comb beaches and went diving to find certain shells to be used as tools.
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That's definitely not my dad or my grandfather's version of Neanderthals, where they're presented as brutish, gorilla -like cavemen carrying clubs, just like the slides you showed.
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Could you pull those up? But now, they're diving for shells found buried with humans, creating artwork and musical instruments.
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They're even portrayed in museums as sporting stylish ponytails and suits.