[steve-b]

See, these differences between the human genome and the chimpanzee genome are assumed to be "accumulated" through divergence from a "common ancestry"

Unfortunately for your argument, evolution was known before anyone had discovered genomes. Thus, it is impossible for the former to be a mere assumption invented to explain the latter.

Your position is equivalent to asserting that Heinrich Schliemann wrote the Trojan War mythology to explain his archaeological findings.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Unfortunately for your argument, evolution was known before anyone had discovered genomes. Thus, it is impossible for the former to be a mere assumption invented to explain the latter.

Actually, you've got it backwards. I would assert that genetics (in and of itself empirical) is pressed beyond its intrinsic capability for explanation into the realm of "justifying" evolution through the a priori assumptions made by evolutionists who fit genetics into their already-existing circular reasoning.