9. Neanderthal ABGs

When taking Allometric Bone Growth (ABG) into consideration, different age determinations can be drawn upon examining the Neanderthal bones. ABG, occurring only in the jaw, front facial bones, and the back of the head, is the continuous outward bone growth during the specimen’s entire lifetime giving them a protruding chin and forehead and a large cranium. Evolutionary scientists believe Neanderthals to be extinct evolutionary offshoots to mankind, but creation scientists have discovered them to be the long living forefathers from the days of Noah and before. We will be comparing three different Neanderthals: Le Moustier (age 17), Chapelle (age 43), and Ferrassie (age 43). These comparisons will be between the age that evolutionists say that they are and the ABG ages when you compare jaw angle and facial growth. Growth rates will be based upon the average ABG that a modern human encounters which is about 5% every thirty years. Chimpanzees and apes encounter a growth rate that is twice that of humans, so their ABG is 2X or two times.

Le Moustier

When this fossil was discovered in France, a lot of “doctoring” went into effect to make it the great neo-darwinian claim that it is. This skull is one of the many constructed composites. A composite is when you find pieces of the skull, and then you put in plastic to cover for the pieces that you do not have. The critical problem with this is that the discoverer has a license to get truly creative / deceptive in putting together his finding. One of the media claims when this fossil was originally presented is that it has a “mallocluded jaw” meaning that the upper and lower jaw do not match. The best way to hide a lie is to throw it out there for everyone to see and hide it with your thesaurus. In reality, when the discoverer was putting the jaw bone back onto the skull, he moved it 30 millimeters (little over an inch) forward so that it would have a more ape-like appearance. This fossil also had a false bone wedged into a fissure at the base of the skull to hide the slower growth rate and to make it appear that the neck and the head slumped forward in a more caveman/ape-man like fashion. Now that we are past the fiction, let’s look at the facts. Evolutionists claim that Le Moustier was 17 years of age. With a 110 degree jawbone, his ABG would have to be twice that of a regular person. When taking into account for ABG, his age is corrected to be 27 years old. This correction may be small, but with other fossils, the results are much bigger.

La Chapelle

La Chapelle-aux-Saints is another French Neanderthal claimed to be 43 years old at the time of his death. Upon closer examination, in order for him to get a jaw angle of 105 by the age of 43, his jaw would have to grow at 7 times the normal rate. Upon making adjustments for normal ABG, his age is adjusted to be about 192 years old. When looking at facial growth, his face would have to grow at 11 times the normal rate. When taking into account for normal ABG, the recalculations come to a ripe old age of 278 years old. A large difference exists between the study of the jaw angle and facial growth. This is partly due to the fact that this specimen’s bone growth was impacted by arthritis and a host of other diseases due to a poor diet in his effort to survive a post-Flood ice age.

Ferrassie

This Neanderthal is also said to be 43 years old at the time of his death. His jaw bone reads an age of 231 and his facial growth reads to be 324 years old. Measuring ABG to determine death is not an exact science, but it is clearly showing that this person could not achieve this kind of bone growth within 43 years. Under circumstances of normal growth, this is evidence of him living to be centuries old.

In Conclusion

In an article from the Sun News, 10/20/2007, they remarked that scientists recently believe that Neanderthals had the “gift for gab.” After massive efforts to dehumanize them as ape-men and evolutionary offshoots, scientists are starting to realize that there is more to them. At their grave sites, evidence for religious burials has been discovered such as powders that have been sprinkled upon the body, flower remains, and various tools. Some of these tools have been medical in nature. All of this points to a much more advanced civilization than Chewbacca with a loin cloth carrying a club. Some of the burial sites have the person with arms folded in a resting position. A reconstruction of what they would look like today conducted by those in the disciplines of Reconstructive Forensics and Anatomy show that a modern day Neanderthal would look like a typical stocky person of today.

Let’s end with a quote from an Answers In Genesis article “Neanderthals: Our Worthy Ancestors Part II” by Marvin Lubenow:

“The Indians of Tierra del Fuego, at the extreme southern tip of South America, were hunter-gatherers. They were considered to be among the most primitive people on earth. Ashley Montagu (Princeton University) writes that these Indians:

[They] . . . live in perhaps the worst climate in the world, a climate of bitter cold, snow, and sleet, and heavy rains a great deal of the time, yet they usually remain entirely naked. During extremely cold weather they may wear a loose cape of fur and rub their bodies with grease.³⁴

When Charles Darwin went on his famous around-the-world voyage, he visited the Fuegians. In his fascinating work, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin describes Fuegian life and culture.³⁵ It is difficult to compare people living in historic times with people we know only from fossils and cultural remains. Nevertheless, a strong case could be made that the cultural inventory of the Fuegians was less complex and extensive than was the cultural inventory of the Neandertals. Yet, no one considered the Fuegians to be less than fully human, except Darwin, who believed that they were too primitive (sub-human) to be evangelized. Darwin was proven wrong by missionaries who did evangelize them. In fairness to Darwin, he later admitted his mistake regarding the spiritual potential of the Fuegians.

One of the most brutal episodes in human history was the genocide of the full-blooded Tasmanians about a century ago. The genocide was allowed because evolutionists claimed that the Tasmanians were not fully human. The reason their full humanity was doubted was because evolutionists applied the false test of culture. Jared Diamond (University of California, Los Angeles) states in his article “Ten Thousand Years of Solitude” that any anthropologist would describe the Tasmanians as “the most primitive people still alive in recent centuries.”³⁷ Of all of the people in the world, they were considered among the least technologically advanced. Hence, they were considered less evolved than other people.

Like the Indians of Tierra del Fuego, the cultural inventory of the Tasmanians, as described by Diamond, was less complex and extensive than was the cultural inventory of the Neandertals. Yet, the Tasmanians proved that they were fully human. How did they prove it? They passed the fertility test. Although all full-blooded Tasmanians are gone, there are many Tasmanians of mixed blood today because in those early days many Caucasian men married Tasmanian women.”