However, he also buys into secular claims about the age of the Earth-fraught as they are with worldview-based, Bible-denying presumptions-and consequently the great antiquity of Neanderthals. Ross believes-correctly-that Adam and Eve were real people, the parents of all humanity, and the agents through whom sin entered human history. Ross-who accepts the old-earth claims of evolutionists but rejects biological evolution-insists Neanderthals are but animals? Irreconcilable Time At a time when the Neanderthal image has been considerably upgraded and rehabilitated among evolutionists, how is it that Dr. 1Įvolutionists have largely come to see Neanderthals as a sort of archaic human species whose evolutionary relationship to modern humans is debated, but who left their genetic footprint in our DNA through interbreeding. The greatest distinctions between modern humans and the hominids can be seen in their cognitive capacity, behavior patterns, technological development, and culture, especially artistic and religious expression. The model predicts many biological similarities will exist between the hominids and modern humans but also significant differences. RTB’s model reserves this status exclusively for Adam and Eve and their descendents (modern humans). These extra-ordinary creatures walked erect and possessed enough intelligence to assemble crude tools and even adopt some level of “culture.” The RTB model maintains that the hominids were not spiritual beings made in God’s image. RTB’s biblical creation model identifies “hominids,” Neanderthals, Homo erectus and others, as animals created by God. Reasons to Believe maintains that Neanderthals were not human but only animals-very special, truly bipedal animals able to make tools and paint and be sufficiently concerned about their dead to bury them, but animals nevertheless, not made in the image of God. The problem rests largely on whether Neanderthals-one of the best-represented unusual archaic people in the fossil record-were actually human. Let’s examine his claims in light of science and the Bible.

Fazale Rana, coauthor of Ross’s 2005 book Who Was Adam?, responded, “Ken Ham, You completely misrepresent the RTB view on hominids.”‬‬

The last time Ken Ham posted about this on Facebook, Dr. Ross would not call them human, lived before Adam and Eve, we have often called attention to the inconsistencies of Dr. Noting that this amounts to a belief that soulless humans, though Dr. Not being made in the image of God, however, they were only placeholders in this world with no possible place in the next. Hugh Ross, author of Navigating Genesis and founder of Reasons to Believe (RTB), believes the ancient world was peopled with pre-Adamic intelligent but soulless human-like bipedal beings who painted on cave walls and buried their dead.

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