Neanderthal Man?
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation. (Acts 17:26)
There is a secular museum in Germany where the curator dressed the wax model of a Neanderthal Man in a business suit and tie. His reason? He said it was time to quit deceiving the public. Neanderthals were just plain people. Indeed, scientists now classify Neanderthals as Homo sapiens, the same scientific name given to you and me…
Tragically, Neanderthals have not been the only people once considered subhuman “missing links”…
The Australian Aborigines were also once treated as subhuman evolutionary links, and were classified as Australian animals by Germany’s leading evolutionist, Ernst Haeckel. The natives of Tasmania were deliberately slaughtered by settlers who justified themselves by saying it was okay to kill wild dogs as farm pests, so why not other non-humans? As her dying wish, the last surviving Tasmanian, Truganini, asked that she be buried with her “people,” not embalmed as a museum specimen. She died, was embalmed, and preserved as an evolutionary link. Warning: Few Christians stood against this horror, perhaps because many churches had already accepted evolution into their thinking. Christians standing on the Bible would have known there’s only one race, the human race, and we’re all part of it (Acts 17:26).
(Gary Parker, Creation: Facts of Life (How Real Science Reveals the Hand of God), Green Forest, Arkansas: Master Books, 2009 [1980], 176-177; Excerpt from Chapter 3, The Fossil Evidence: Human Beings)