Creationism in Crisis - Neanderthals invented String 40,000 Years Before God Invented Earth!

Creationism in Crisis

Neanderthals invented String 40,000 Years Before God Invented Earth!

(a) SEM photo of cord fragment.

Hardy, B.L., Moncel, MH., Kerfant, C. et al. (2020)

Creationism in Crisis

Neanderthals invented String 40,000 Years Before God Invented Earth!

(b) 3D Hirox photo of cord fragment.

Hardy, B.L., Moncel, MH., Kerfant, C. et al. (2020)

Creationism in Crisis

Neanderthals invented String 40,000 Years Before God Invented Earth!

(c) schematic drawing illustrating s and Z twist.

Hardy, B.L., Moncel, MH., Kerfant, C. et al. (2020)

Creationism in Crisis

Neanderthals invented String 40,000 Years Before God Invented Earth!

(d) enlarged Hirox photo with cord structure highlighted, arrows indicate location of photos e and f.

Hardy, B.L., Moncel, MH., Kerfant, C. et al. (2020)

Creationism in Crisis

Neanderthals invented String 40,000 Years Before God Invented Earth!

(e) SEM photo of bordered pits (circled in red).

Hardy, B.L., Moncel, MH., Kerfant, C. et al. (2020)

Creationism in Crisis

Neanderthals invented String 40,000 Years Before God Invented Earth!

(f) SEM photo of bordered pits.

Hardy, B.L., Moncel, MH., Kerfant, C. et al. (2020)

Oldest ever piece of string was made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago | New Scientist

Figure 3
(a) SEM photo of cord fragment, (b) 3D Hirox photo of cord fragment, (c) schematic drawing illustrating s and Z twist; (d) enlarged Hirox photo with cord structure highlighted, arrows indicate location of photos e and f; (e) SEM photo of bordered pits (circled in red); (f) SEM photo of bordered pits.

Drawing by C. Kerfant; Hirox: C2RMF, N. Mélard.
Hardy, B.L., Moncel, MH., Kerfant, C. et al. (2020)

Here's some of that scientific evidence stuff that creationists must dismiss somehow to remain a member of their anti-science, counter-factual cult. It's the news that Neanderthals were making string 40,000 years before they believe the Universe was created. The cult exists despite the overwhelming evidence that it is wrong by many orders of magnitude, and that magic was not involved, so one little piece of ancient string is hardly likely to change their minds.

As a piece of archaeology, however, the fact that Neanderthals had the technology to make string - one of the foundational technologies of human technology - is surprising and unexpected. Making string, which involves extracting long fibres from plants (in this case, the bast fibres from the bark of a conifer), twisting them together to make longer strands, then twisting those strands together with the opposite twist to lock the fibres in place, is a complicated and labour-intensive process.

Just Another Example of the 'Impossible' Happening

An illustration shows nanocrystals assembling into an ordered ‘superlattice’ – a process that a SLAC/Stanford team was able to observe in real time with X-rays from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).

Illustration: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists Watch ‘Artificial Atoms’ Assemble into Perfect Lattices with Many Uses.

One of the major problems that creationism suffers from is that so many of its claims are demonstrably untrue and can be seen to be untrue.

The leading frauds are acutely aware of that problem so have a work-around for it. They tell their followers that if the evidence tells them their beliefs are wrong, the evidence must be wrong because their beliefs can't be. Then they witter on about 'evidence' and try to mislead people about it as though it does matter after all. They must be the only people who call themselves scientists but argue you should ignore evidence unless you can persuade yourself it agrees with you.

Here, for example, is an example of scientists watching something happen that creationists insist doesn't happen. They watched order (and a high degree of order) emerge out of chaos.