[Old Landmarks]

I was told for years, (quite dogmatically by evolutionists) that the Chimp and Man were over 98% genetically identical. That was still two percent difference (which makes such an enormous difference in real life); and now to hear Man and Chimp are even more different at 4 percent difference simply verifies the obvious and is not surprising. Should be considered old news in principle to those who already knew the difference.

Man and Chimp were created with enough difference to belong to two different 'kinds' just like God created them.

[bobdsmith]

So if any two species with a 4% difference in their genome are different kinds? What is the barrier? 1%, 2%, 3%?

[js1138]

The 98 percent figure is still valid. It refers to the coding, or functional portion of DNA. The 96 percent figure refers to the other 95 percent of DNA, which does not code for proteins and which has few known functions. Generally, it's referred to as junk, but some of it is known to have limited function.