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Skull suggests human-Neanderthal link (found in a cave in Romania)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/15/07 | Randolph E. Schmid - ap

Posted on 01/15/2007 4:48:07 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: Dysart
Redheads 'Are Neanderthal'
21 posted on 01/15/2007 5:16:59 PM PST by blam
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To: NormsRevenge

Here we go with this again....


22 posted on 01/15/2007 5:17:20 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: blam
... Mrs. Lurkin's relatives ....
23 posted on 01/15/2007 5:21:04 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: My2Cents
"Judging from the gaping hole in his skull, is it safe to say he didn't die of natural causes?"

That's right, he's the dad. They also found a large pile of empty beers gourds near the fire pit. Investigators theorize he was thumped for refusing to take out the garbage.

24 posted on 01/15/2007 5:21:43 PM PST by spunkets
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To: NormsRevenge

Possibly; suggesting; maybe. She loves me, she loves me not. Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


25 posted on 01/15/2007 5:22:32 PM PST by gedeon3
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To: BenLurkin
"... Mrs. Lurkin's relatives ...."

LOL. Keep that up and you'll have to change your name to BenDead, lol.

26 posted on 01/15/2007 5:25:08 PM PST by blam
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To: My2Cents
Judging from the gaping hole in his skull, is it safe to say he didn't die of natural causes?

Depends. You'd have to check for radial fractures and all sorts of other evidence of trauma.

The abstract for the 2003 article doesn't mention trauma so its more likely that the skull was damaged after death:

The 2002 discovery of a robust modern human mandible in the Petera cu Oase, southwestern Romania, provides evidence of early modern humans in the lower Danubian Corridor. Directly accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (14C)-dated to 34,000–36,000 14C years B.P., the Oase 1 mandible is the oldest definite early modern human specimen in Europe and provides perspectives on the emergence and evolution of early modern humans in the northwestern Old World. The moderately long Oase 1 mandible exhibits a prominent tuber symphyseos and overall proportions that place it close to earlier Upper Paleolithic European specimens. Its symmetrical mandibular incisure, medially placed condyle, small superior medial pterygoid tubercle, mesial mental foramen, and narrow corpus place it closer to early modern humans among Late Pleistocene humans. However, its cross-sectional symphyseal orientation is intermediate between late archaic and early modern humans, the ramus is exceptionally wide, and the molars become progressively larger distally with exceptionally large third molars. The molar crowns lack derived Neandertal features but are otherwise morphologically undiagnostic. However, it has unilateral mandibular foramen lingular bridging, an apparently derived Neandertal feature. It therefore presents a mosaic of archaic, early modern human and possibly Neandertal morphological features, emphasizing both the complex population dynamics of modern human dispersal into Europe and the subsequent morphological evolution of European early modern humans. Source


27 posted on 01/15/2007 5:30:49 PM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Genesis 6

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.


28 posted on 01/15/2007 5:40:44 PM PST by Raycpa
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Knock that off, Blam.





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29 posted on 01/15/2007 5:52:47 PM PST by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.......)
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To: Raycpa

Ya know, it's one thing being called a Neanderthal but now you're calling us Nephilim?



LOL!


30 posted on 01/15/2007 5:55:13 PM PST by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.......)
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To: Raycpa
I have often wondered about that passage in Genesis as well as Genesis 6:2. They puzzle me.

"The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them."

Who were the sons of God that they should look upon the daughters of men? It seems as if this sentence is saying that they were not men. Then who were they?
Quite a lot could be interpreted from that sentence.

31 posted on 01/15/2007 5:57:25 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgences of society's understanding.)
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To: NormsRevenge
say "Hi" to your sister.....

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32 posted on 01/15/2007 6:02:46 PM PST by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
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Image hosted by Photobucket.com tooo damn funny...
33 posted on 01/15/2007 6:02:49 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: My2Cents

I suspect that happened after the fact, when neolithic stoners modified the skull for use as a bong.


34 posted on 01/15/2007 6:09:35 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: lesser_satan
when neolithic stoners modified the skull for use as a bong

Dude Man.

36 posted on 01/15/2007 6:27:21 PM PST by My2Cents
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To: My2Cents
LOL, Amsterdam Man, aka Homo Amsterdamus
38 posted on 01/15/2007 6:34:35 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I seem to remember similar stories from Greece before the flood, with the Titans and Gods warring. Where are those histories written?


39 posted on 01/15/2007 6:36:20 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy (It's a fight to the death with Democrats.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Who were the sons of God that they should look upon the daughters of men?

I recently heard the explanation that makes the most sense to me by a theologian (I think it was Dr. R. C. Sproul)

He demonstrated they were not angels. He said the daughters of men were descendants of Cain while the sons of God were not. The mixture of Cain's nature with the other descendants was the precursor to the need for the flood.

I found his explanation fascinating and need to reflect on it more.

40 posted on 01/15/2007 6:40:08 PM PST by Raycpa
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