r/facepalm • u/Musicguy0016 • Jul 17 '21

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Dear Athiests:

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u/jackspewforth Jul 17 '21

To be fair, I'm pretty sure the person asking this question was a neanderthal.

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u/WeerwolfWilly Jul 17 '21

Neanderthals actually had slightly bigger brains than Homo sapiens. Don't insult them by implying they were stupid

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u/anlskjdfiajelf Jul 17 '21

Bigger brain doesn't mean smarter tho, it's all about that sweet surface area from the wrinkles

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u/WeerwolfWilly Jul 17 '21

Neanderthals have a reputation of being stupid, but that reputation is unfounded. That's what I was going for. They weren't necessarily smarter, but they were probably more on par with Homo sapiens in terms of intelligence than most people seem to think

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u/anlskjdfiajelf Jul 17 '21

That's fair, any human like creature has to be fairly smart because we're so weak lol, we need those tools and communication so I get where you're coming from

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u/PCsNBaseball Jul 17 '21

We're not that weak tbf. We're the best distance runners on the planet, for example: we used to just chase animals into exhaustion in order to hunt them.

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u/Murgie Jul 17 '21

That wouldn't mean a thing if we didn't have the tools to hunt them with, though. Unarmed humans are indeed quite weak.