What is the creationist response to the fact that we share 98% of our DNA with a chimpanzee?

Question

And if you say we share a % with any other species, my reaction would be duh! we have a common ancestor with that species to.

You say we share 77% with a pig? Good, going back several millions and millions of years, we were the same species.

I bet we even share DNA with the single celled organisms on the planet.

Answer 1

My wife thinks I'm a pig anyway so what does that matter?

I think the difference is 2%.

Works for me!

Answer 2

don't have to be a religious fundamentalist to question evolution theory - you just have to have an open and enquiring mind and not be afraid of challenging dogma. But you must be able to discern and dodge the effusion of evolutionary landmines that are bluster and non sequiturs.

No one denies the reality of variation and natural selection. For example, chihuahuas and Great Danes can be derived from a wolf by selective breeding. Therefore, a chihuahua is a wolf, in the same way that people of short stature and small brain capacity are fully human beings.

However, there is no evidence (fossil, anatomical, biochemical or genetic) that any creature did give rise, or could have given rise, to a different creature. In addition, by their absence in the fossil record for (supposed) millions of years along with the fact of their existence during the same time period, many animals such as the coelacanth demonstrate the principle that all creatures could have lived contemporaneously in the past.

No evidence supports the notion that birds evolved from dinosaurs, nor that whales evolved from terrestrial quadrupeds, nor that the human knee joint evolved from a fish pelvic fin. And the critically-positioned amino acids at the active sites within enzymes and structural proteins show that the origination of complex proteins by step-wise modifications of supposed ancestral peptides is impossible. In other words, birds have always been birds, whales have always been whales, apes did not evolve into humans, and humans have always been humans.

But you might protest that it has been proved that we evolved from apes. In fact, the answer is a categorical No. Australopithecines, for example, were simply extinct apes that in a few anatomical areas differed from living apes. If some of them walked bipedally to a greater degree than living apes, this does not constitute evidence that apes evolved into humans - it just means that some ancient apes were different from living apes.

Answer 3

Answer to Black Fedora -- Yes Other Great Apes have 48 chromosomes. The reason is that Human chromosome 2 = chimp chromosomes 10 & 11 fused together. In fact you can even see the end structures (telomeres) from the chimp chromosomes 10 and 11 smack in the middle of Human Chromosome 2. If you had taken the time to do any real research you would have seen these chromosomes match up perfectly.

Answer 4

Darwin is false science. But it would take me all day to explain to you how that is demonstrated,

So I will only say that the Bible only says God created the animals and he created Man. It does not say what happened after that. Even though Darwin's theories are seriously flawed, there is ample evidence of changes taking place in life forms.

But, think of this. If a chimp shares 98% of our genes, might he not be, in Darwinian terms, a de-evolved man? And is it more likely that the most simple DNA became more and more complex (adding something out of nothing), or that the most complex from time to time lost worn out genes and became simpler? Does lead somehow gain atomic particles and one day become radium? Or does radium lose atomic particles through decay and someday become lead?

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Answer 5

The bible reveals God as the uncaused cause behind everything we see. Having striking similarities between created things shows continuity, i.e. intelligent design. Looking at the makeup of DNA one finds the same chemicals in everything. Evolution does not recognize a connection to dirt, yet the bible reveals that God took the material already created to form the pinnacle of creation: Mankind.

Answer 6

Human beings stop thinking logically when it comes to evolution.
The evolutionists are not missing a link to prove their theory, they are missing a long chain between every species.

Genesis 6:4 it says "the Nephilim were on the earth in those days AND ALSO AFTERWARDS (meaning after the Flood) when the SONS OF GOD went to the daughters of men and had children by them, they were heroes of old, men of renown."

That is why GOD sent the Flood, to destroy the seed that did not belong on this Earth, and why He commanded the Israelites to kill all men women and children after the Flood, because they were from a seed of another galaxy that did not belong here.

Adam was not the first

Genesis 6:2-4. It says the "Sons of God" came to the daughters of men and had children with them and their offspring were the "Nephilim" meaning Giants, and they
were also called "Heroes of old, men of Renown."

These were not your average men, they were genetically superior because their seed hadn't yet fallen into sin. In fact, this is where the legend of Hercules and
Zeus came from.

The NIV it replaces the phrase "Sons of God" with
"angels".

Hebrews 1:5, "For to which of the angels did God EVER say 'You are my Son; today I have become your Father'." Or again, "I will be his Father, and he will be
my Son."
In fact this verse makes it clear that God does not refer to his angels as "Sons".

Answer 7

Oak trees and maple trees are very close in DNA too, but they didn't come from the same tree. Just because they're close doesn't make them the same.

If we did come from chimps, which we didn't, how come the chimps didn't evolve anymore and we became human? Only a couple of them evolved and the rest just stayed the same? Pretty illogical theory, isn't it?

Answer 8

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle....


Didn't you know? We were all created in 'The Great Sneeze'. When the aliens visited this rock many millennia ago, there was a great sneeze. Next thing you know....life appeared out of the glob.
'Yay...though I walk through the valley of snot...I shall fear no kleenex, they wad and sniff protect me."

Answer 9

If I were a creationist, my response would be that sharing 98% of our DNA doesn't really mean anything.

Answer 10

Not surprising to me, because we have a COMMON DESIGNER, not a common ancestor. The same Creator created us and all other living things, DUH.


Evolution is a farce, and Darwin was a racist.

Answer 11

Apes have 48 chromosomes. Humans 46. Three of the ape chromosomes do not have analogs in humans and one human chromosome does not have an ape analog. How does evolution account for these differences.....oh, yeah....magic.