Sorry, but I am NOT related to a monkey or ape. I was created in the image of god, period!
You're not mammalian? And you're not a primate?
I was created in the image of god, period!
The suspense is killing me. You've got to post a picture!
Bobin>>Sorry, but I am NOT related to a monkey or ape. I was created in the image of god, period!<<
As a separate issue from whether we were designed by God as we evolved, created by God as is or evolved without God it appears all life in the animal kingdom has DNA and the that the DNA molecules or nucleotides determine what the animal is and how closely its related to other living things.
You can put this different ways - you can emphasize the similarity with our closest DNA match - the Chimpanzee.
You could say there is only a 1.3% - 4% DNA difference depending on who does the math and how they do it..
or you could say there are 40,000,000 DNA differences which sounds like a lot.
or you could say there are 40 million out of 3 billion which gives you the 1.3% difference.
or you could say that researchers have identified a couple of thousand of those differences of the 3 billion total that are "biologically significant" which makes us sound very closely related.
It depends on what kind of spin you want to put on it. Chimpanzees are our closest DNA match and then you spin how large the gap is. Clearly we are quite different in spite of having a lot in common.
Sorry about that - should have posted a source link.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0831_050831_chimp_genes.html
I SWEAR I did not scroll down and see your post!! RMTA though.