One of the great trophies that evolutionists parade to prove human evolution from some common ape ancestor is the assertion that human and chimp DNA are 98 to 99% similar.[ii] People quote this statistic in hundreds of textbooks, blogs, videos, and even scientific journals. Yet any high school student can debunk the “Human and Chimp DNA is 98% similar” mantra that this chapter covers.
Why does this matter? We know that genes determine body features from gender to hair color. If we are genetically related to chimps, some may conclude that humans should behave like animals, with no fear of divine justice. But if we all descended from Adam, not from animals, then common animal behavior such as sexual promiscuity cannot be justified on these grounds.[iii] This has been a primary foundation for the mistreatment of humans worldwide by genocidal political leaders and governments over the past 150 or so years. One highly reputable study showed that the leading cause of death in the 20th century was “Democide”—or “murder by government,” which has claimed well over 260 million lives.[iv] All of the totalitarian murderous tyrannies the world over, despite their different political variations, maintained the same Darwinian evolutionary philosophy that humans are higher animals to be herded and culled in wars, death-camps, abortions, mass starvations, and outright slaughter.[v] Does this issue matter? Well, it’s a matter of life and death. It needs to be refuted if it’s not true.
We should evaluate the major evidences that exposes the 98% myth and supports the current conclusion that the actual similarity is 84.4%, or a difference of 15%, which translates to over 360 million base pairs’ difference.[vi] That is an enormous difference that produces an unbridgeable chasm between humans and chimpanzees. The chimp genome is much longer than the human genome. Humans have forty-six chromosomes, while chimps have forty-eight. According to the latest data, there are 3,096,649,726 base pairs in the human genome and 3,309,577,922 base pairs in the chimpanzee genome. This amounts to a 6.4% difference.[vii] The 98% similarity claim fails on this basis alone.
If human and chimp DNA is nearly identical, why can’t humans interbreed with chimps?[viii] Furthermore, such an apparently minor difference in DNA (only 1%) does not account for the many obvious major differences between humans and chimps.
If humans and chimps are so similar, then why can’t we interchange body parts with chimps? Over 30,000 organ transplants are made every year in the U.S. alone, and currently there are over 120,000 candidates on organ transplant lists—but zero of those transplants will be made using chimp organs.
Table 1. Organ Transplants[ix]
| Organ Transplants (2016) | |||
| Organs | # Currently Waiting | % of Transplants Made Using | |
| Human Organs | Chimp Organs | ||
| All Organs | 121,520 | 100% | 0% |
| Kidney | 100,623 | 100% | 0% |
| Liver | 14,792 | 100% | 0% |
| Pancreas | 1,048 | 100% | 0% |
| Kid./Panc. | 1,953 | 100% | 0% |
| Heart | 4,167 | 100% | 0% |
| Lung | 1,495 | 100% | 0% |
| Heart/Lung | 47 | 100% | 0% |
| Intestine | 280 | 100% | 0% |
The living populations of the chimp kind include four species that can interbreed. From the beginning, they were spirit-less animals created on Day 6 of creation. Later that Day, God made a single man in His own image, and He gave him an everlasting spirit or soul (Genesis 2:7). Then God commanded man to “rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the animals,” including chimps (Genesis 1:26).
If the creation narrative from the Bible is true, we would expect exactly what we see in today’s ape-kinds. First, all varieties of chimps have no concept of eternity. For example, they do not bury their dead nor do they conduct funeral rituals. Secondly, apes use very limited verbal communication—they cannot write articles or even sentences. Thirdly, they do not display spiritual or religious practices as humans do. In other words, they show no capacity for knowing their creator through worship or prayer. This fits the Biblical creation account that God created humans as spiritual beings with an everlasting spirit or soul (Genesis 2:7).
It stands to reason that God, in His desire to create diverse life forms on Earth, would begin with the same building materials, such as DNA, carbohydrates, fats, and protein, when making various animal kinds. Research has revealed that He used similar building blocks for all the various physical life forms that He created. Genetic information in all living creatures is encoded as a sequence of principally 4 nucleotides (guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, shown by the letters G, A, T, and C). We also see this principle in nature—such as many plants and animals sharing Fibonacci or similar spirals with clear algorithms and sequences as building patterns.
Much more: https://genesisapologetics.com/faqs/human-and-chimp-dna-is-it-really-98-similar/, by the grace of God.
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Some humans may be...like Biden, for example. He even looks like a chimp.
I'm not arguing that he evolved from chimps. I just think there might a chimp in the Biden family tree. I'm pretty sure that Hunter would mate with a female chimp if she would wear a bikini and smoke crack.
Since we all live in basically the same environment, of course there would need to be those kinds of similarities.
Additionally, since much of the plant and animal life is also food for us, in order for our bodies to assimilate it, it would have to have components our bodies could use. If they were radically different, they would not be able to nourish us, and might even be deadly.
If chimpanzees have 48 chromosomes and people have 46, why the difference? Did our ancestors lose some? How do other apes compare to chimpanzees in terms of chromosomes? Have they managed to figure out how many chromosomes Australopithecines had? Or Homo erectus?
Chimpanzees and gorillas may not be able to speak, but a few of them have been taught sign language or using plastic symbols to convey meaning--they do have a certain level of intelligence (they can even "lie") although far below that of human beings.