Are you willing to admit NOW that in terms of DNA sequence, a human and a chimp are more similar to each other than either is to a gorilla?
==So now you are only wrong about the genome, while the data is not yet in on the epigenome.
No I will not. I will admit that their linear DNA is more similar, but I will not conceded that their genomes (even without the epigenome) are more similar because each code segment of the untranslated regions, which comprise 97% of the code, can have five, seven or more functions. That means that identical (linear) segments can have a set of functions for one species that are quite different from the functions these segments carry out in another species. But of course, if I need the epigenome to show chimps are closer to other great apes than to humans, I always have that to draw upon too (but I doubt I will need it). In the end, chimps are closer to other great apes than to humans both in terms of body plan and functional needs. This should be evident in whatever machinery makes chimps, chimps and humans, humans. I say the evidence for these STRIKING differences will be found in the untranslated regions and the epigenome. And I have little doubt that my prediction will be vindicated by further research.