Neanderthals—Our Siblings?

Neanderthals—Our Siblings?

by Ken Ham on March 18, 2024

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This is Ken Ham, author of the family commentary on Genesis, Creation to Babel.

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When I visited museums as a teenager, the Neanderthals were always depicted as dumb, brutish creatures who could barely make a fire. Now those who start with the history in God’s Word know this picture is wrong because we didn’t evolve so there aren’t any lesser evolved humans.

Well, evolutionists have been slowly catching up with what we knew from the Bible. Last year an article argued that Neanderthals should be reclassified as Homo sapiens because, well, they’re “more sibling than cousin.”

It’s taken evolutionists decades to come to the same conclusion creationists came to from the beginning—Neanderthals, they were just like us!

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