Posted on 07/10/2007 10:17:24 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
"Truth be told" about Chimp-Human DNA comparisons
07/02/07
by David Tyler
"Truth be told" about Chimp-Human DNA comparisons For over 30 years, the public have been led to believe that human and chimpanzee genetics differ by mere 1%. This 'fact' of science has been used on innumerable occasions to silence anyone who offered the thought that humans are special among the animal kingdom. "Today we take as a given that the two species are genetically 99% the same." However, this "given" is about to be discarded....
(Excerpt) Read more at arn.org ...
And those 20,000 protien coding genes and 37,000 microRNA’s are just happenstance. Boil lava, dirt and water, throw in thousands of meteor impacts, wait billions of years for them to form tens of thousands of genes and microRNA’s in a nice neat baby sized package, feed, clothe and change the diapers, and here we are! All grown up and no creator needed. Sort of like a paper and pencil writing out how to reproduce itself and then doing it, and throwing in the works of Shakespeare on the paper as well. All that is needed is enough time . . .
OK. Whatever you say. Feel better now?
Ummm...probably, "Must remember, no frenching!"
If you don’t believe in evolution, that is your prerogative.
But because I do, doesn’t make me a liberal - I’m farther to the right than most people on this forum. But I am also a biologist. The biological evidence that supports the theory that simpler life forms evolved into more complex life forms fills volumes of texts. No biologist ever suggested that humans evolved from monkeys. At least 100,000 of existence as a distinct species (Homo sapines) and millions of years of evolution as more primitive hominid ancestors separates us from our closest relatives, the anthropoid apes, and even more time from any common ancestor with a monkey. In sense, your comments about “oceans of blood” is accurate.
Biologists who try to prove that evolution indicates that we are the product of a series of fortuitous genetic “accidents”, and hence there is no Creator and no Divine Plan, are straying as far from science as theologians stray from theology when they infer the Bible is a reliable source of information on matters of science.
I believe in evolution, the Bible and God and have no problem reconciling those beliefs.
Theologians should stick to theology and scientists should leave theology to theologians.
This is an entirely misleading article. The claim is that there is a difference of 1% in the DNA SEQUENCE, not in the "genetics" or "chromosomes" or "genes"....so the entire argument is a big fat strawman. However, the article then goes on to note that "on top of the 1% distinction"....thereby showing that there still IS a 1% distinction.....in the DNA SEQUENCE. Thusly, the 1% is not a myth. It's fact, plain onle DNA-sequencer generated fact.
THEN, based on a calculation that I'd LOVE to see...he comes up with a "whopping 6.4%" number. Really....is a 6.4% "difference", considering all the parameters he looked at, REALLY a "whopping" number?
THAT’s a KEEPER!!!!
Everyone’s a critic.
Whatever you say.
Genomewise, humans and chimpanzees are quite similar.
That's a pretty sad and degrading thing to say about scientists who happen to study the theory of evolution.
And its also a lie.
“Really, science isn’t that hard to understand.”
It’s not a matter of inability to understand, but unwillingness. Most people want to believe what they want to believe. That probably applies to most of us who believe in evolution, too.
You made a joke, I followed with another joke. I don’t see the problem.
Others have different opinions. Some agree with mine.
Speciation does not deny creation. Creation does not deny speciation. Whither the Dodo? Is the starting lineup at a NASCAR race the finishing lineup? Why are there Asians, Slavs, Europeans, Africans, etc.; when there were only Adam and Eve at the beginning? Who can know the mind of God?
Why did you find it inspiring?
Best example of glorified, self imposed ignorance I've ever seen. Bet you think yur purdy smart with your skool edumication, too.
Ha! Whatever you say. Suit yourself.
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