Engaging the Zoo of RTB Models

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

Just to collect a related post on the RTB position:

Neanderthals and the Image of God

It is an interesting read about the Reasons to Believe model of human origins. (@AJRoberts) http://www.reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/read/tnrtb/2016/05/09/did-neanderthals-bury-their-dead-with-flowers 28:19 RTB 101: Did Neanderthals Bury Their Dead? - YouTube If I was to summarize, it seems that RTB holds: Homo sapiens = “human” Image of God = capacity for religious practice, art, music, and a spirit, awareness of an afterlife, and a spirit. Everything without the Image of God = Beast Neanderthals do not have Image of God, but Homo sapiens do. Any notion of the Image of God is seriously threatened if there is not a sharp divide between Neandertals and Humans. Adam, Eve, and their descendents exclusively have the image of God. RTB does not at all make clear on their website, whether or not they think there was Neandertal-Human interbreeding. I’ll plan on asking them this week what their real position is. Though the YEC Todd Woods, says, “the RTB model” p…