Pangea......they could have walked to Australia.

Eskimos in Northern Canada are believed to be Mongoloids that walked from upper Asia across an old land bridged that joined the Yukon.
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF4/494.html

Pangea!

Im sure that if this disproved evolution, evolution would be considered by science as disproven, which it is not, so that doesnt disprove evolution. Did your science book say it disproved evolution or did you just understand it that way btw?

Neanderthals were an evolutionary dead end. At one time there were many humanoids living at the same time not all them became homo-sapians. Why are you using Neanderthals as proof for evolution. Viruses are a much better example. They evolve much faster than animals. That is why many anti-biotic don't work any more. Bugs are also good examples. If you spray a bunch of roaches some will live. (take my word on that, I live in Florida) The one that live are resistent and pass that on to their off spring. After a while that spray will not work will not kill your roaches. That my dear is evolution. The thing is as much as Fundies would like it to be, evolution is not a theory. In science it is a proven fact.
Here are some sites that might help.
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/news/sty/2001/aph...hid_sidebar.htm
http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoEvidence.html
I think the idea of creationism belittles the complexity of creation.
Good luck. I see the fundies have pretty much taken over the internet.

Did you even read the Bible?
Although I'm not a Creationist (I believe in Evolution), I am familiar with the scriptures, and what you just wrote is rubbish.

The bible claims to explain the origins of all mankind. It also states that all mankind are equal, as they are all the sons of the same parents (Adam and Eve. The Hebrew word for "human" is Ben-Adam or Bat-Adam ("son of Adam" or "daugher of Adam"), which emphesize the equality of all humans.
The Bible also claim that after the great flood, only Noah and his three sons and their wives survived, and so we are all the sons of Noah.
It claims that humanity is divided into three lines, originating from three brothers:
Shem, Ham and Japhet.

As for "chosen people" - you simply don't understand what that means. This is a mistranslation from Hebrew, because many Hebrew have dualistic meaning. There are other mistranslation, like the word Armeggedon, which actually should be read as Har-Meggido (Mount Meggido).
Anyway, the original term is not "chosen people", as a better people than others, it means they were chosen to do something - "selected people". The Jews according to the Bible were chosen to spread the message of God as the only true god.
And if you ask me - 2 billion Christians, and 1.2 billion Muslims, is a pretty well-done job, wouldn't you say?

P.S
Judaism also do not compell non Jews to become Jewish. According to Judaism, all humans are compelled to follow only the 7 laws of Noah, because we are all children of Noah. The Jews, when they were chosen to do the specific job of spreading God's message, took on themselves many more laws, 613 to be exact, that came with the job. So you Noahides got of the hook this time ...

I get the impression from scripture that there was a lot of preserving going on with specific bloodlines, and there was also a desire to hunt and eradicate this bloodline.

The exodus through the desert is an example of this preservation, and only the offspring born through out the journey were allowed into the new land.

I believe this bloodline that was preserved, was the same bloodline Hitler tried to eradicate, and it is the preservation of this bloodline that led to a lot of the persecution felt by the Jews throughout history.

Does this ring true or am I way off here?

I understand this.....but was it like this in the days of the Biblical patriarches.

I understand 'Jewishness' as being not only a religion but a cultural identity.

Weren't potential converts to Christianity in the NT obliged to convert to Judaism before being baptized?

Take it you have a PhD in biology. Your "IDEA" has nothing to do with scientific method. Science is a way to understand world around using steps to prove theories. This is scientific method. I you wish to base science on religion then I would not go into science as a career. Go into the clergy and then you can say what you want with out worring about truth

I have questions about what is happening in our educational system today.

Yes, it is a very ancient policy. It is a law wrriten in the Torah, not an Oral law.

Yes, this is correct. Jewishness is a non-exclusive ethnic group - meaning that in order to become part of the Jewish ethnicity, you can join by converting to Judaism.
But this is not the other way around - a Jew cannot "un-Jew" himself. A jew who converted to Christianity or Islam is still considered a full fledge jew according to Jewish law.

Before Paul's reforms, Christianity was a Jewish sect, and is still called in Hebrew "Noztrim", after their desciple - Jesus of Nazarath.
There is still a tiny Jewish sect called Talmidi Judaism, who follow Jesus as a prophet, not as a Messiah. You can read about it HERE.

YOU ARE A FRAUD! I followed the link on the bottom of your post. I thought you were a student. You are not! You have a big post on it about creationism. You are an administrator on that site. You had no intention of real study. You are a fundie. You should be ashamed of yourself. I am a Pagan and I would never use fraud to promote my religion. As a matter of fact we don't promote our faith at all. Know wonder our faith is growing. People want to get away from the deceit and lies of christanity.

This is her post on the other site.

Belief in Jesus had nothing to do with anti-semitism.
Anti-Semitism existed long before Jesus was born - back in the time of the slavery in Egypt they were persecuted (remember Pharoes order to kill all the Israelite first born kids?), and in the time of Greek rule in Eretz Israel.
I believe the reason for this was that Jews never gave up their own culture. It pissed many, and won the admiration of some (Julius Caeser and Great Alexander admired the Jews for their long-lasting culture). Eventually the hatred became part of some religion's culture, who after hundreds of years of hatred toward a group of people saw it as an integrated part of their culture and religion.

Why do Poles have different facial features than others? why do Arabs have different facial features?
Jews are mainly descendants of middle-eastern Judeans, so ofcourse they will look different than non-Judean people.
But this is somewhat not true - most Jews look like their surrounding neighbor populations, although genetically they are closer to Arabs, Assyrians, and other middle-eastern people (this was discovered in the 90s of the 20th century).
A Polish Jew looks like a Christian Pole. An Arab Jew looks like a Muslim Arab.
In Europe it is a bit complicated - Jews migrated in all of Europe, and so if you want to see the sum of all Europeans facial features, look at Ashkenazic Jews - they are part German, part Polish, part Russian, part Spanish, part Italian, part French, part Scandinavian, part Celtic, etc..
The genetic research revealed that although Ashkenazic Jews share the same genes with other Jews and with middle-eastern people through the Y-Chromosome, they share samiliar genes with their surrouding local populations through the mitachondrial DNA (that is - through matrilineal line).

The stereotype of a hooked-nosed Jew with dark skin and dark hair and dark eyes is ofcourse not true: I myself have red hair, blue eyes, pale skin and a straight nose.

So they were persecuted for not assimilating with surronding groups, holding on to tradition. This I believe confirms the idea of preservation I mentioned. Jesus I believe mentioned that the old ways (OT) didn't apply to his era as in the customs and rites.

This refusal to let go of their culture is shown in the denial of Jesus as the messiah, isn't it ?