Neanderthals

 OK I found a video of a creationist, didn't catch his name despite straining but he's obviously vey legit, referred to some articles with names I've heard though I don't remember them at the moment,  oh Wayland?  something like that.  I think his podcast might have been itled Biblical Genetics but I'm not even sure of that.  

Anyway he's adamant that Neanderthals were human, descendancts of Noah, offered some genetic ideas about how they could have bdeveloped as a population whgich was peretty convincing erxcept fort the reliance on mutatatios which just doesn't cut it.   Here's where I tyry to make my case of simple normal variation built inot the genome and how it can sometimes lead to dramatic differences in the apprearance of separated populations of that Species or Kind.  That's really all it takes for great changes to coccur.  It doesn't need mutations or anything added to the genome.  It just needs the reporductive isolation of a small number of individuals who just happen to have a geneticx mix that when worked through the population down some number of genetations brings out some rather dramatic new characteristics compartred to the parent population.  Such as, perhaps a hjeavy brow ridge and receding chin.  Yes for sure that is somethig that could happen from simple migration of a small nmber of individuals whose set of genete frequencies just happens to contant the elemetns , propabably some increase in homozygosity in some combintatino of genes, randomly selected as it were, which in repeated combination ofver some umber of generations brings about a new race of beings.  That's how the Neanderthals could have formed and this creationist is saying the same thing only he thinks mutations are needed to provide the variations.

Nope.  All it took for the Pod Mrcaru lizards to acquire a dramatic new appearnacne in comparison to their parent population b, was repeated sexual recombination of their own set of gene frequencies, brought together in ten individuals on an isolated island.  Over thirty years, and probably less than that I would surmise.  It doesn't take mutations or any additions.  God provided the stuff for great variation i the human genome.  Evryone has a particular combination of alleles unique to the indivudal, that can make interesting combinations with that of other individauls to create a line of descendancts that doesn't look like th eoriginal individual much any more at all.

So I'll go with this for now, accept that Neandertheals were human, but I really don't like letting them represent the human race at large after Noah's family got off the ark.

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