Cloning of Neanderthals would be difficult for religion

Slate has an interesting writeup on the possibility of cloning a neanderthal here: http://www.slate.com/id/2205310/

 

What's especially tricky is that a neanderthal is the closest non-human species to modern man.  In other words, it is almost a human, but not quite.  It may even be able to talk, though that's never been conclusively proven.  Moreover, cloning such an animal would be definitive proof to the remaining idiots who do not believe we evolved from other species, despite no evidence to the contrary and loads and loads of evidence in support.

 

We wouldn't even need a human to help with the cloning, we could use a chimp.  However, as the article notes, a Catholic bishop has already referred to a neanderthal as "another human species" which shows some acceptance in evolution.  Should they move to prohibit this cloning on the grounds that it amounts to human cloning, they would have to admit that we evolved from lesser species which puts a large amount of their fairytales into the secure realm of myths.