Sharing Genes with Chimps....and dirt???

Question

Ok I understand that people think that humans came from a comon ancestor shares with apes/chimps etc.... the claims for this are that we share so many similar genes, true, but it is also known that we share genes with MANY other living things on this planet, not all of them animals/ mamals etc... We share half of our genes with a banana, 85% of our genes are shared with mice, pigs are our best bet for organs, so why are so many people insistent that we come from apes, or in the least share a common ancestor? The "cosmic crud" that was brought back in 2006 is also very similar to our make up.

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“This same dust that was inherited from the Galaxy into the early solar system makes up all the atoms in your body. We’re this same interstellar dust. In a very real sense, we’re looking at our earliest atomic and molecular ancestors.”

So how do we share genes with dirt (for creationists) if we come from apes or ancestors (for evolutionists) there of?

The bottom line of the question is, since we share so much in common with everything on this planet, including dirt, couldnt it be possible that we did come from dirt?

Not trying to cause a fight or mean comments, just simply asking a question...

Answer 1

If you are serious about this question, check this link for an example as to why people think this:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section2.html#molecular_vestiges

Answer 2

What?

If you accept evolution, it's logical that we are descended from apes and that chimps are our closest living cousin species, because evolution happens by modification of genomes that already exist. We have more than 99% of our genes in common with chimps; we have 95+% in common with other apes - therefore we are more closely related to them than to bananas, or germs, or what have you, with which we share a far smaller percentage of genes. The genetic relatedness IS the amount of shared genes. It's the definition. It's how we decide what's related to what. We figure that the genes we have in common with other apes, were also present in our common ancestor, and those we don't have in common, have changed since the common ancestor evolved into us.

If you don't accept evolution, I'm not sure what you're asking. All life shares some genes - it's all related and descended from a common ancestor, as best we can determine.

Answer 3

I don't quite understand the question. We share more genes with apes then we do with bananas, indeed with all other living organisms, so therefore they are our closest related species. Dirt is not made of genes, but of the fundemental pieces of matter, which make everything. Genes are more about the concept of replication than being an actual physical thing like matter. That is to say, they are more like the information on a computer disk than the actual disk itself.

Answer 4

Your DNA is 99% the same as an ape's. But humans are not related in any way. As hard as it may be for you to believe human's were created by other life forms in the multi universe and actually transplanted here on this earth billions of years ago. Try reading some books written by Lobsang Rampa to get a better understanding on this matter.

Answer 5

The reason we even share genes with fruit, is that all the life on this planet, all of which are carbon-based life forms, was originally formed from the same single-celled life forms a few million years ago. All of it. Sharing 50% of your genes with a life form is not particularly significant. All it shows is that the life was formed in the same general environment. Sharing over 90% starts to become notable. At 95% plus, its bit more than notable, its a relative.

Answer 6

Read the Ancestors Tale by Richard Dawkins. Or any science text book for that matter.

And yes since only stars can create anything beyond Helium we are all made from stardust.

Edit:

Of course we came from dirt, what else? Actually clay is one of the latest speculations.

Answer 7

You are right, humans share genes with all organism.

One of the many reasons it is accept that humand descended from an ape species is how much material we share with modern apes then we do with any other species. Logically if we have more in common genetically and phenotypically with apes, it wold stand to reason we are "related" to apes.

Answer 8

Be very careful with your claims. Some of the material the Stardust probe returned to Earth was organic. But none of it was genetic - no double helix, no complex organized amino acids. There was no DNA in the proverbial 'cosmic crud.'

Answer 9

If you go back even further than the ape ancestor, we're related to all living things. At first there was only Unicellular life. From there it evolved into everything that lives on the planet today.

Answer 10

This is an easy answer
We come from earth
and there for we share genes with everything on earth because she shared her genes with us and everything else on it.
ho whard is it to understand that man is part of nature and nature is the bond that we have to everything.