Are They Learning The God's Truth Finally?
Scientists Hit on the Truth . . . but for the Wrong Reasons!
This is certainly an eye-catching headline, “Archaic Humans Might Actually Be The Same Species as Us, Study Suggests.” New research suggests that so-called “archaic” humans, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, might actually have “more in common than we ever thought” with modern humans. Well, I could have told them that without a study! We’ve been saying that at AiG all along
You see, in the biblical worldview, all humans—extinct varieties or otherwise—are one race, all descended from Adam and Eve, and all made in the image of God.
Humans didn’t progress slowly out of Africa, evolving into new species along the way with many fits and starts. They were created fully formed and functioning as one human couple, and through them the whole earth was eventually populated (Genesis 1–2; Acts 17:26). Since Neanderthals and Denisovans are not our extinct human “cousins” but our direct relatives—descended from Adam and then from Noah and his sons, just as we are—I would expect us, living just a few thousand years later, to have much in common with them.
The study looked at genome databases built from the DNA of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans, to find “critical rearrangements of our chromosomes and select variations in our genes.” Now, the variations are observational science—we can observe how different populations of humans vary on the genetic level. That variation is the result of the genetic diversity God created in the human kind. But the “critical rearrangements” are pure fiction, referring to the supposed “swapping of the tips of our X and Y chromosomes,” otherwise known as “the translocation of human PAR2.” According to their analysis, this important event in our supposed evolution happened earlier than thought.
In other words, the genetic seeds of what make us special as human beings stretch back close to a million years ago. Since then, various periods of population growth and shrinkage, together with more cultural influences, have helped separate us from Neanderthals and Denisovans.
The result? “Such distinctions [of different human species] might need to be re-evaluated.”
Now, while their reasons for believing that humans are more similar than thought are wrong as they are based on evolutionary interpretations of the evidence (geneticist Dr. Georgia Purdom explains more about that in the Answers News episode linked at the top and bottom of this page), the conclusions are actually somewhat correct. Ignoring the evolutionary timeline of millions of years, we can agree that yes, humans—all humans—are one species and are highly similar to each other (though we can state that fact much more confidently!). The differences among humans are minor ones caused by created genetic variety, the splitting of the population at Babel, and other cultural and environmental influences.
So even though these evolutionists are wrong, they are also kind of right! That’s because they mix historical science and observational science!
by Ken Ham on January 21, 2025
Featured in Ken Ham Blog
It looks like the light is shining bright as scientists learn the God's Truth about science bit by bit.
This is certainly an eye-catching headline, “Archaic Humans Might Actually Be The Same Species as Us, Study Suggests.” New research suggests that so-called “archaic” humans, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, might actually have “more in common than we ever thought” with modern humans. Well, I could have told them that without a study! We’ve been saying that at AiG all along
You see, in the biblical worldview, all humans—extinct varieties or otherwise—are one race, all descended from Adam and Eve, and all made in the image of God.
Humans didn’t progress slowly out of Africa, evolving into new species along the way with many fits and starts. They were created fully formed and functioning as one human couple, and through them the whole earth was eventually populated (Genesis 1–2; Acts 17:26). Since Neanderthals and Denisovans are not our extinct human “cousins” but our direct relatives—descended from Adam and then from Noah and his sons, just as we are—I would expect us, living just a few thousand years later, to have much in common with them.
The study looked at genome databases built from the DNA of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans, to find “critical rearrangements of our chromosomes and select variations in our genes.” Now, the variations are observational science—we can observe how different populations of humans vary on the genetic level. That variation is the result of the genetic diversity God created in the human kind. But the “critical rearrangements” are pure fiction, referring to the supposed “swapping of the tips of our X and Y chromosomes,” otherwise known as “the translocation of human PAR2.” According to their analysis, this important event in our supposed evolution happened earlier than thought.
In other words, the genetic seeds of what make us special as human beings stretch back close to a million years ago. Since then, various periods of population growth and shrinkage, together with more cultural influences, have helped separate us from Neanderthals and Denisovans.
The result? “Such distinctions [of different human species] might need to be re-evaluated.”
Now, while their reasons for believing that humans are more similar than thought are wrong as they are based on evolutionary interpretations of the evidence (geneticist Dr. Georgia Purdom explains more about that in the Answers News episode linked at the top and bottom of this page), the conclusions are actually somewhat correct. Ignoring the evolutionary timeline of millions of years, we can agree that yes, humans—all humans—are one species and are highly similar to each other (though we can state that fact much more confidently!). The differences among humans are minor ones caused by created genetic variety, the splitting of the population at Babel, and other cultural and environmental influences.
So even though these evolutionists are wrong, they are also kind of right! That’s because they mix historical science and observational science!
by Ken Ham on January 21, 2025
Featured in Ken Ham Blog
It looks like the light is shining bright as scientists learn the God's Truth about science bit by bit.
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