Neanderthals could probably talk. What are the religious implications of another sentient human species?

it means that their story is a metaphor

Scientists mapped the genome of Neanderthals. So all of us be attentive to it relatively is a diverse species. it relatively is yet another nail interior the creationism coffin. it relatively is fourty-5 thousand nails so a ways... i think of each and every animal is unsleeping, purely some are plenty greater unsleeping than others. Like Neanderthals have been in all probability fairly much less unsleeping than us people. of direction i'm speaking in relative words on the grounds which you won't be able to relatively degree expertise.

Scientists mapped the genome of Neanderthals. So we know it's a different species. That's another nail in the creationism coffin. That's fourty-five thousand nails so far...

I think every animal is conscious, just some are much more conscious than others. Like Neanderthals were probably slightly less conscious than us humans. Of course I'm speaking in relative terms because you can't really measure consciousness.

That's an excellent question. Unfortunately, creationists and most other religious believers have already been given plenty of evidence that many of their teachings are false (ie the earth is more than 6,000 years old) and chosen to ignore this proof. Creationism is a theory beyond logical thought, it dwells in the same realm as the divinity of christ and revelations from god. You either believe or you don't, and usually scientific proof does nothing to change that.

It's another piece of knowledge that we have come across that people can either learn and lose some of their belief or ignore and keep believing in fairy tales. Oh and, by the way, sentient is to feel; sapient is to know. Technically, even animals are sentient but only humans are sapient.

Neanderthals as a species has been debunked.

Maybe you do not know this fact.

All remains found that have been dubbed Neanderthal are well within norms of "today's" human models called Homo Sapiens in some circles.

It means more putting hands on ears and speaking in tongues.

To be honest I wasn't aware that it was thought that Neanderthals didn't have an ability to effective communicate with each other. Thanks for the link. ; )

Neanderthals probably had religious beliefs as well, judging from the evidence of how they used to bury their dead.

having the ability of speech doesnt necessarily mean they had the brain power for concepts such as religion. apes can be taught to speak by using buttons - although thats only very rudimentary speech. humans have a large area of the brain devoted to speech and if neanderthals did to it doesnt mean they necessarily had the ability of abstract thought.

why would it have any impact? key words here are: probably, apparently, suggests, predicting...

we still don't know any more than we did before...

God is the master designer - maybe He loved His neanderthals so much that He didn't want to subject them to our sinful human nature. after all, if they were physically different - we probably would have enslaved them or practiced genocide on them...

Get real, man. Every single creature of God's can "talk" in some form.

The idea of cave man is good only for selling insurance.