“I’m calling BS on the notion that chimps are closer to humans than to apes . You can’t have it both ways. You can’t have two organism that are closer to each other than a third organism in terms of body plan and functional needs (which you freely admit), while at the same time being closer to the third organism in terms of the genome and epigenome. As I said, it’s a logical impossibility.” GGG
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Thank you. And I think I will stand by that statement. A chimp is going to be genetically (to include DNA, “junk” DNA, and epigenetics) closer to a gorilla than to a human because their body plan and functional needs are closer to that of an ape. This should hold true whether you look at it from a creation or an evolution point of view. If I am wrong, I am wrong, but to my mind that is what you should expect no matter which camp you are rooting for.