Were? Hell, some are still kicking.
And not looking too friendly, either.
This is what passes for truth among creationists?
Pitiful.
Humans and chimps are more closely related to each other than either is to any other living species. Among the ape clade we are the two closest related species by DNA comparison. The genetic DNA is 98% the same, over the entire genome that includes the non-genetic regions, we are some 95% the same.
Neanderthals are not only very similar in DNA to humans, it has been estimated that some 1-4% of the ancestors of anyone of European or MiddleEastern heritage were Neanderthals.
I must admit, I couldn’t contain my laughter when I read that human-chicken-chimp comparison, earlier. That was so silly, it almost seems like someone did that deliberately, to undermine the Creationists.
Were? Hell, some are still kicking.
And not looking too friendly, either.
Your argument should be with the scientist at:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7280/full/nature08700.html
The Nature paper expressed the mismatch between this data and standard evolutionary interpretations in a more muted tone: “Indeed, at 6 million years of separation, the difference in MSY gene content in chimpanzee and human is more comparable to the difference in autosomal gene content in chicken and human, at 310 million years of separation.”1 Autosomes are the chromosomes other than the X and Y.
So, the human Y chromosome looks just as different from a chimp’s as the other human chromosomes do from a chicken’s. And to explain where all these differences between humans and chimps came from, believers in big-picture evolution are forced to invent stories of rapid wholesale rearrangements, and rapid generation of both new gene-containing and regulatory DNA.
God made man and all life. That is my story, you and others can invent your own. Oh, you have, amoeba to man in a few billion years or whatever.
/bingo