How Similar Are Human and Ape Genes? )article)

Institute for Creation Research ^ | May 2013 | Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D.

[fishtank]

Image from article.

[American in Israel]

I love science when it is pure and the way things works are studied for the hows and whys. Hate it when religious overtones force the study down narrow lines that discard information that is unfavored.

Science in and of itself is a beautiful thing. But the history of science has always be clouded by the flat earthers, those who insist that only science that fits their narrow world view be studied. like Evolutionists.

When I was young, it was a big deal to work on a one meg memory bank for a computer. Now, with a lifetime of improvement we have memory banks that fit in your pocket that are big enough to write down the data contained in a single cell...

The design of creation is STUNNING.

[Arkansas Toothpick]

Honestly, I don’t care if we had the exact same genes as an ape. The truth is that there is no ape that has ever painted a Mona Lisa, sculpted a David, programmed a computer, started a business, composed a song, or written a book. The evolutionist makes a mistake based on his/her assumption that commonality in genes is evidence of their theory. Rather than look at it as a common building block used by our Creator, they shoehorn it into their godless paradigm and proclaim the truth of their lie. No, only a fool believes that we are just a suped-up monkey.

[allmendream]

Are these writers stupid, or do they assume their audience is?

Genes are a very small subset of DNA. Human and Chimpanzee genes are very very similar. Human and Chimpanzee genomes are less similar. Humans and Chimpanzees are more similar in genetic DNA than either is to a gorilla. Humans and Chimpanzees are more similar in their genomes than either is to a gorilla.

[raygunfan]

im with you A.T.

[PLD]

Why do they continue spending money on this trying to prove we are related to apes...I believe God when he said we are made In his image..My God in heaven is not an ape so get that through your idiot heads..

[GilesB]

A complete analysis of the data would also include a comparison of widely divergent life forms. Man and butterfly, for example. We really don't know how similar one pairing is until we know how dissimilar the other is.

[Darren McCarty]

Michael Moore is the missing link.

[ontap]

A novice would be hard pressed to tell the difference between human DNA and the DNA of broccoli. This is an absurd argument that does nothing but cloud the issue. There simply no comparison with Human and animal when it comes to intelligence or self consciousness.

[BitWielder1]

Hate it when religious overtones force the study down narrow lines that discard information that is unfavored.

Or political.

[longtermmemmory]

discounting similarity in DNA is like arguing humans do not have cells because an ameoba is a single cell organism.

similarity of DNA easily provides for similarity of structure in two arms, two legs, torso, head, heart, lungs, digestion, eyes, ears, etc.

[Kenny Bunk]

Obviously you are ignoring Modern Art and Modern Fiction. It could have easily been created by apes, chimps, and especially orangutans.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2011/03/08/how_to_tell_a_masterpiece_from_a_painting_by_a_monkey.html

[MrB]

I love your phrase “suped up monkey”.

What you’re observing in the “evolutionists’ mistake” is that they look at all evidence through the lens of the ASSUMPTION of evolution in order to say that the evidence supports their assumption.

[Jeff Chandler]

[dartuser]

Are these writers stupid, or do they assume their audience is?

Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D. in Genetics from Clemson University.

"Twenty quatloos that the newcomer, within 5 posts, will claim Tomkins is not a real scientist."

[MrB]

Oh, yes, that’s another logic fallacy, called the “no true Scotsman” fallacy.

“No real scientist denies evolution”.

So, of course he’s not a “real scientist”, if your definition includes a requirement for a belief system.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

In addition assuming 98% similarity between man and chimp genes one look is all it takes to note the great difference.

[allmendream]

Well good for him. He is either stupid or he is convinced his likely audience is.

The less educated someone is the more likely it is that they are a creationist. It seems that creationist sources are aware of this and write to the appropriate education level of their audience.

[Heartlander]

To paraphrase David Berlinski’s story “ On the Derivation of Ulysses from Don Quixote ” –
Imagine that one novel "the Quixote” is the first and only novel in all creation (which is analogous to the first cell). Blind men copy this novel by hand over and over – during the transcription process, errors are made which create entirely new novels. The printing press is developed and mass copies are created along with more errors. Now new novels are also inadvertently being created en masse in new languages. Ultimately, all known works of literature from Ulysses to Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich are accidently created from the one book - the Quixote.

There you have it – origin of man in a nutshell ; )

[MrB]

Yes, in MOST cases...
some democrat congresscritters come to mind...