Prior to the DNA analysis Creationists argued about whether Neanderthals were human or not. You have elected to call them humans, while Hulk (earlier in this thread) found Qur'anic evidence to say they were apes.
This is what brother Hulk actually said:
Does this mean that human beings evolved from a lower species? No. As revealed in the Quran, Adam (as) was the first human being and he was created by Allah.
"And when your Lord said to the angels, 'Truly, I will create a man from clay. So when I have completed him, and breathed into him of My spirit, then fall down prostrate to him.' And the angels prostrated, one and all. Save for Satan, who was too proud to, and disbelieved. He said to him, 'O Satan, what prevented you from prostrating to what I have created with My two hands? Are you arrogant, or too exalted?' He said,'I am better than he; You created me from fire and created him from clay'" (Qur'an 38:71-76)
His following statement refers to the punishment that Allah imposed upon the Israelites for breaking the Sabbath (by transforming them into apes):
So what is this dilemma creationists are supposed to be having? Is it because you found remnants of "human-like apes"? SubhanAllah, it was revealed in the Quran that there were human beings who were turned into apes.
Now we have sequenced the DNA, interbreeding is confirmed.
Another false claim:
The results from the new studies confirm the Neanderthal's humanity, and show that their genomes and ours are more than 99.5 percent identical, differing by only about 3 million bases.
"This is a drop in the bucket if you consider that the human genome is 3 billion bases," said Edward Rubin of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who led one of the research teams.
For comparison, the
genomes of chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, differ from humans by about 30 million to 50 million base pairs.
The findings also appear to refute speculations by some scientists that Neanderthals and humans interbred in more recent times. "We see no evidence of mixing 30,000 to 40,000 years ago in Europe," Rubin said. "We don't exclude it, but from the data that we have, we have no evidence that pages were ripped from one genome and put in the other."
http://www.livescience.com/1122-neanderthal-99-5-percent-human.html
{ ^ This is a report from evolutionists - who themselves, accept the 'humanness' of the 'Neandethals'. }
This makes it certain that they are very closely related and therefore definitively not apes (from whom we diverged very much longer ago).
Interestingly, apes of today have chosen not to continue this 'divergence' to evolve into humans.
Forget about not being able to find fossils that show evolving species......we are not even able to witness this phenomenon today, even though we have our supposed ancestors in our midst.
"Scientists most often use the word "fact" to describe an observation. But scientists can also use fact to mean something that has been tested or observed so many times that there is no longer a compelling reason to keep testing or looking for examples. The occurrence of evolution in this sense is fact. Scientists no longer question whether descent with modification occurred because the evidence is so strong." (The US National Academy of Science)
There has been
no "observation' of evolution" - for it to be classified as a fact.
And neither has this hoax of a theory been "tested or observed so many times that there is no longer a compelling reason to keep testing or looking for examples."
The term 'missing link' predates Darwin and is next to meaningless.
The term 'missing link' is meaningless?
Interesting! This is
your statement:
Vast numbers of fossils have been discovered since his day and many of the so-called 'missing links' discovered.
My question is: What 'missing links' are you actually referring to?
Please make mention of these with full references.
This is standard scientific method, used across all disciplines.
We have not observed evolution.
We have found fossils - many of which are fraudelent or belonging to another animal.
It has been mentioned in this thread. Piltdown Man is a famous historical hoax, quite entertaining and very well known. It gets Creationists excited, although it plays no role role in evolutionary science.
It's as irrelevant to modern evolutionary studies as alchemy is to modern chemistry.
Not only was the Piltdown Man a hoax, but in fact many others as well.
In the interest of refreshing our memories:
These use the average rate of mutation over millennia to calculate when ancestral species 'should' have existed.
Again, lets make this clear:
It is NOT possible for a large number of beneficial mutations to have spread through a population and become 'fixed'.
Please, for the sake of progressing in this thread, lets not repeat false or unsubstantiated statements that have already been discussed earlier on.
You may refer to this post and its link again:
http://www.islamicboard.com/clarifi...atheists-could-not-answer-16.html#post1604315
A MUST Watch:
The Fake Ape Men
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The 'theory' of evolution is
not based on science and neither is it evidence-based.
It is
not reproducible and never will be.
TOE is probably the biggest hoax created by our secular society and continues to be spread by those who refuse to acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being, Allah, who has already clarified our origins and creation for us.
What is even sadder, is when people do not understand the theory and all of its flaws and discrepancies themselves (as is evident in this thread), but continue to try to force this falsehood upon others.
What type of mischief is this?
SubhanAllah.
My advice to my brothers and sisters here - please do not waste any further time on this discussion.
Our time is precious - the Aakhirah and the meeting of our Rabb awaits.
The truth has been made clear for us by our Merciful Allah.
It does not lie within scattered bones.
:wa: