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“The gap between us and our nearest biological relatives is immense”

The gap between us and our nearest biological relatives (chimpanzees) is quite small, only 2% in genetic DNA and some 6-10% in genomic DNA.

Rats and mice, for example, are much more different from each other in DNA than a human and a chimpanzee are.

Do you speculate ‘seriously’ about extraterrestrial origins of mice?

Ever read “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”? LOL!

Actually, Robby is correct. And the fact that humans are collecting chimp DNA to compare is proof Robby is right.

There’s an immense gap between us an any other creature on earth.

How long do you think before chimps will be checking out DNA? Writing books? Creating computers?

Chip, my dog, is content to lay by the fire and lick himself....and us, if we’ll let him. He gets so excited when I take the leash off the hook.

He does not put it on my neck. And he doesn’t light the fireplace for me to get comfy in front of.

Labs are among the smarter canines.

Mortimer Adler once wrote a small book dealing dealing with the question: Do humans and animals differ by degree, or by kind? If we are talking about intelligence, then it seems that it is by kind. All the animal studies do show an enormous gap between the young of other species and human young. The first Darwinists out great stock in the recapitualiationist theory, which had our young more or less repeat the evolutionary trail. If we do, then that “memory is buried deep in our DNA. If we and the chimps have a common ancestor, we have no way of knowing what he was like, because he has literally never been found. Some have hypothesized a sudden leap, where in a short while a brutish population is replaced/exterminated by a rational one. But I note that most fossils hunters still cling to gradualism. Fact is, though, there is a lot of speculation about and little evidence of our ancestors. A lot of highfalutin intellectuals seem to have the need to prove that their ancestors were earth bound. They just don't like the implications of our ability to ponder matters that none of our earthly kin seem to have an inkling of.