[Ichneumon]

I am getting tired of repeating this.

Then feel free to stop repeating it.

CURSE/SIN/WAXING OLD/DEATH/EROSION/WEAKENING/DEGRADING/DE-EVOLVING

This fails to have any explanatory power.

For example, if "DEGRADING/ETC." only began at the time of the Fall, which if it occurred would (obviously) be sometime after mankind had existed, then it fails to explain those many, many genetic "degradations" which are configured exactly as one would expect if they had arisen in a common ancestor prior to man first arriving on the scene.

For example, you are invited to explain how you feel that "DEGRADING/ETC." explains the pattern of shared endogenous retroviruses in man and other species, as well as the pattern of pseudogene mutations and so on. Contrast your answer to the manner in which evolution theory consistently explains such observations. For a concrete example you may wish to tackle, try my posts #1969 and #1986.

[bondserv]

Are there mutations that apes have that humans don't have?

By your reasoning this would argue for uncommon decent.

By my reasoning, the similarities that man and apes have genetically would cause me to think that similar mutations would affect both groups. A creature with very different genetics would be affected by the same mutating function in a different way.

We can find some mutations that we share, which would go to our genetic similarities, and some mutations we don't share, which would go to our genetic differences.

A plague that sweeps the globe like the Bubonic would possibly hammer the ape population in the same way as it hammered the human population, precisely because of our shared genetic designs.