If science were ever restricted to observation, experimental demonstration, and evidence, some cosmologists left that reservation far behind long ago. Being smart does not preclude going nutty.
They were our physical and intellectual equals. What's the difference? The label "Neanderthal" becomes a kind of historical racism against a group of true human beings.
It's Easter time. That means the secularists are hatching and buzzing like cicadas with their latest attempts to debunk the Bible's account of Christ and his miracles.