Posted on 11/18/2018 1:56:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv
How nice, another irrelevant quote of the Bible. The Neandertals were a bit shorter than modern humans.
True (except for the spelling of Neanderthals), but, on the other hand, most humans of that era were also more than a bit shorter than average humans today. And despite shorter lower legs, they are generally believed to be broad chested and heavily muscled - relative giants of their era.
My spelling is correct.
Neandertals and modern humans started mating early
By Ann Gibbons
Jul. 4, 2017
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/neandertals-and-modern-humans-started-mating-early
Old Testament writers never saw any Neandertals. The notion of the cyclops, one eyed giants, arose in Greece from fossil forms of mammoths. Belief that giants (and dragons) once walked the Earth likely stem from such finds. Two appear in the OT, Og of Bashan, and Goliath, and also don’t fit the description of a Neandertal.
Interesting - but a single example could, ironically, be of a deformed specimen.
Or screaming in horror...................
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