Recordings › Neanderthals And Denisovans & The Islamic Narrative | Mufti Abu Layth · 19 Jan 2022 › Segment 2 of 4
Neanderthals were more intelligent than people think
muftis koran quraan al-quran khalifah caliph khulafa khilafah khilafat caliphate khilafa
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machinesummary, machine-writtenNeanderthals were not stupid: he puts their intelligence at roughly that of an eight or nine year old child, far above chimpanzees.
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Responding to remarks in the chat, Mufti Abu Layth says Neanderthals were not stupid, even though people use the word as an insult. He says they were more intelligent than people assume, not like chimpanzees or gorillas, and probably about as intelligent as an eight or nine year old child, compared with chimpanzees at about the level of a three year old. He adds that an adult human brain can think in an abstraction that a child cannot, but that an eight or nine year old is not dumb by any measure.
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Mufti Abu Layth says Neanderthals were probably about as intelligent as an eight or nine year old child.
“they were probably as intelligent as maybe like an eight nine year old child which is pretty intelligent”
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now one thing what it did mean is something that comes after now you see or something that comes at the end of because half the word half in arabic means behind something that comes so this thing comes then behind it or at the end of it khalifa comes this thing and it would make sense that in a chain a series of manifestations the final succession to all of that all of these homonyms is the ultimate which will result in the
cognitive revolution which will result with mankind as we know it i think that's a an amazing beautiful way to read these verses of the quran right so let's move on inject humans with massive bones neanderthals weren't stupid by the way they were i know we used that term to say you neanderthal but neanderthals were you know they were
more intelligent than we think obviously they weren't more intelligent than us today as humans but they were more intelligent than humans think they were so humans think of them like chimpanzees or gorillas they weren't like that they were much more intelligent than that so they were probably as intelligent as maybe like an eight nine year old child which is pretty intelligent so you know that's that's quite sophisticated so don't don't think that
whereas chimpanzees may be about as intelligent as maybe like a three-year-old child so it's not you know there's quite a substantial difference obviously a eight-year-old child nine-year-old child with a sophisticated mature man or woman let's say who 40 year old with the kind of sophistication of the brain that we have is is incredibly complex and we can think in immense abstraction that a child just can't comprehend even you know concepts yet so but they're not
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@misc{abulayth-2022-01-19-S02, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Neanderthals were more intelligent than people think}}, year = {2022}, month = {1}, date = {2022-01-19}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/voxmweq6rz4/s/2/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/voxmweq6rz4/s/2/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2022-01-19-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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