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If Neanderthals were re-created by DNA would they think God was a silly idea?

And, as they are not technically humans, would they be a candidate for Heaven or Hell? Would Christians be mean to them?

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    Well, first you would have to get them to understand our language and the ways of life in the modern days. All Neanderthals knew to do at their time was to survive and reproduce. If you tell them the whole God thing after teaching them English but not educating them any further, they will most certainly believe in God. But, if you teach them English AND educate them at a high level first, they are most likely to doubt God's existence.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    With all those religious burial techniques they would think you are just ignorant and stupid.

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    Neanderthal Religion

    Graves from Europe and western Asia give a strong indication that the Neanderthals were the first hominoids to bury their dead perhaps as long as 50,000 years ago. In some cases the buried bodies were accompanied with meaty animal bones. Other times with flowers, and in some cases useful objects such as tools suggesting that some Neanderthal groups may have had a belief in some kind of an afterlife. In a larger proportion of Neanderthal burials, the corpse had its legs and arms drawn in close to its chest, which is a sleeping position known as the fetal position Many think this indicates a ritual burial position, preceding a rebirth. And there may even be strong evidence of family graves as some Neanderthal families appeared to have been buried together, just as we have in modern society. These burial pits were perhaps the forerunner to the majestic Tombs, Mausoleums and Great Pyramids thousands of years hence.

    So evidence suggests that perhaps the Neanderthals had some sort of preoccupation with death. They were self-conscious beings and this itself can bring about an awareness of death and the meaning and implications of death. And this awareness of death embodies our ideas, as it probably did theirs, on God, religion and an afterlife. They, like so many religions of today saw death as not the end, but merely the beginning of a new cycle of existence.

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    I'm curious what sort of stupidity prevents you from 5 seconds of Google before you make a complete butthole of yourself.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    I think we'd have far, far, far more important things to worry about if neanderthals were re-created somehow (not by DNA, that is biologically impossible. DNA itself will not lead to the formation of a species).

    Source(s): Physician, Catholic
  • mattes
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    My take as an atheist. take a examine out canine, they are extremely distinctive and yet they have intercourse and reproduce. This tells me they have been interbreeding. that's complicated for those cave human beings to have widespread they have been thoroughly distinctive. They probable combat one yet another and capture the ladies to be their friends. I guess they might interbreed in basic terms like canine in the present day. it particularly is logical concept. in the event that they have substantial sensible then they would not breed yet they did no longer have such intelligence on the time when you consider that they have been cavemen.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Would Christians be mean to them? Yes.

    Would they hit those Christians with Clubs? Also Yes.

    They are not as smart as us. I don't think they would comprehend the concept of religion.

  • 8 years ago

    This is a great question. I would love to find out.

  • 8 years ago

    Suzumi the Freethinker: "all of you are bigots"

    Hitler: "I'm not prejudice it is the Jews who all prejudice"

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    They wouldn't be able to comprehend it... much like the atheists of today.

    See the connection?

    and the only reason I'm mean to you internet-atheists is because all of you are bigots.

  • 8 years ago

    Think about this, energy is not created or destroyed, and we are energy, so what if we created ourselves?

  • 8 years ago

    They would if they existed just like aliens and dinosaurs

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