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Originally Posted by Moontanman

This creationist stuff never goes away, they have no need to be accurate or up to date. I saw a show the other day "the view" where they were trying to discuss evolution and the pet Conservative started spouting all kinds of nonsense trying to make her point of if you have a watch then you have to have a watch maker. i could have refuted her with ease but no one else there could so i am sure she scored lots of points for the creationist scientists everywhere.

Let the record show that we challenged the creationist stuff with good reason.

I didn't see any mention in the listed links about the first find of a hyoid bone with a Neanderthal skeleton, so thought I'd broach it. It settled some arguments, i.e. Neanderthals couldn't speak because they didn't have a hyoid bone (a mistaken conclusion on the basis of not having found one before), but raised others as the soft tissues also involved in speech don't fossilize. Here we goes then.

Neandertals and Speech

You may not have thought about the answer to that question, but many anthropologists have. The discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid bone in Kebara Cave in Israel has made some anthropologists believe that Neanderthals were capable of complex speech like modern humans. Others believe that the debate over Neanderthals and speech will never end because the soft tissue of the vocal tract cannot fossilize. ...