Chimps have 94-98% matching DNA with humans..?

Question

.. and yet we still debate evolution. Why?

Answer 1

LOL!  Yeah and despite that there are still people who eat them.

Answer 2

I know this and yet its still illegal to have s*x with them, I'v had s*x with women who only had a 70-80% DNA match Its just not fair

Answer 3

Much of it is the fear of living in a larger world. Creationism gives you everything explained in a neat and tidy manner. Besides, you're 'special" as you have dominion over everything.

With science, you have to accept we're here pretty much through random chance and are simply part of a very large universe. You also have to accept if something is proven wrong you must changed how things are explained. Try doing that with any holy book.

Finally, there's nothing wrong with debating evolution. It's when it's at the mud slinging level of a political campaign that creates problems. Throwing mud at evolution doesn't make creationism any 'better." You end up covered with your own mud and annoying people.

Answer 4

Stop worrying and eat your fleas.

Answer 5

I believe in evolution there's just so much proof hidden in the sands. Mutations can change alot. All humans are almost the same it's just one little .1% can change hair, eyes, bone structure, face shape, and skin color. We're all so similar yet people are so racist against each other it's sad.

Answer 6

I'm with the German flag.

It's more like 98 t0 99 %.

Answer 7

Just like an eel and an aligator can make another being (Garr) maybe we did evolve from the chimp but got the other 6 percent from something else? Chimps can't swim so we obivously got our learning process from something else and that is how we are so advanced. That's my opinion.

The reason most people don't believe we evolved from chimps is because of religion and they don't factor in things like cross breeding.

Answer 8

Because we are still short in our DNA.....What makes the other 6%........

The Truths out there and Darwin knew it....He knew we were not entirely APE.

Answer 9

Because American Christian are morons, mostly. Even the Catholic church doesn't believe in a literal six day creation or young earth.

Answer 10

You could just use the argument that God made them similar so of course they would have similar DNA.  When you get into similarities in the sequences of parts of the mitochondria that don't code for protein, all rational arguments against evolution fall apart.  It shows coldly and mathematically that we shared common ancestors unless you resort to the nonsense argument that the data was put there to test our faith.  

We get 91% similarity with chimps and with a thousand base pairs on the D-loop of the mitochondria, the odds of that happening randomly is probably less than 1 in 10 raised to the several hundred zeros.  It also shows most other mammals (all that have been sequenced) share common ancestors with each other in the same mathematical way.  The only way to explain it is they shared common ancestors at particular points in the past and mutations accumulate randomly.  That is why it is misleading to say evolution is a theory and not a fact.  With corroborating data like that, evolution is a fact as much as anything could be.

Answer 11

You mean why does anyone even believe evolution any more?

Beats me.

Perhaps you mean that since chimps are 'so similar' to humans we must have evolved from a common ancestor?

Perhaps you are taken in by false logic that cliams that homology implies common ancestry. It no more implies that than it implies a common designer.

I prefer to let the evidence speak for itself.

A new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the common value of >98% similarity of DNA between chimp and humans is incorrect.2 Roy Britten, author of the study, puts the figure at about 95% when insertions and deletions are included. Importantly, there is much more to these studies than people realize.

The >98.5% similarity has been misleading because it depends on what is being compared. There are a number of significant differences that are difficult to quantify. A review by Gagneux and Varki4 described a list of genetic differences between humans and the great apes. The differences include ‘cytogenetic differences, differences in the type and number of repetitive genomic DNA and transposable elements, abundance and distribution of endogenous retroviruses, the presence and extent of allelic polymorphisms, specific gene inactivation events, gene sequence differences, gene duplications, single nucleotide polymorphisms, gene expression differences, and messenger RNA splicing variations.’4

Specific examples of these differences include:

Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes while chimpanzees have 24. Evolutionary scientists believe that one of the human chromosomes has been formed through the fusion of two small chromosomes in the chimp instead of an intrinsic difference resulting from a separate creation.

At the end of each chromosome is a string of repeating DNA sequences called a telomere. Chimpanzees and other apes have about 23 kilobases (a kilobase is 1,000 base pairs of DNA) of repeats. Humans are unique among primates with much shorter telomeres only 10 kilobases long.7

While 18 pairs of chromosomes are ‘virtually identical’, chromosomes 4, 9 and 12 show evidence of being ‘remodeled.’5 In other words, the genes and markers on these chromosomes are not in the same order in the human and chimpanzee. Instead of ‘being remodeled’ as the evolutionists suggest, these could, logically, also be intrinsic differences because of a separate creation.

The Y chromosome in particular is of a different size and has many markers that do not line up between the human and chimpanzee.1

Scientists have prepared a human-chimpanzee comparative clone map of chromosome 21 in particular. They observed ‘large, non-random regions of difference between the two genomes.’ They found a number of regions that ‘might correspond to insertions that are specific to the human lineage.’3

These types of differences are not generally included in calculations of percent DNA similarity.

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view...

In 2005, scientists announced that the entire chimpanzee genome had been successfully sequenced and it had confirmed evolutionary predictions (of course!). However, there are critical flaws to this declaration.8

First, the chimpanzee genome was not built from scratch. In a likely bid to save money and time, it was assembled using the human genome as a scaffold. This also reveals the evolutionary presuppositions of the scientists who started the genome project with the critical assumption that humans and chimps are close evolutionary cousins and would tend to bias the results towards greater similarity.

Second, the chimp genome is about 12% larger than the human genome. At the risk of sounding overly simplistic, this would seem to indicate at most an 88% DNA similarity from the outset. How was this 12% difference taken into account in the overall percentage similarity, or was it ignored?

http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/...

Let's discuss the evidence shall we, and leave aside the evolutionary dogma.

Answer 12

A 2-6 percent difference in 3 billion base pairs of human DNA versus chimp or primate DNA equates to 60-180 million beneficial mutations that humans must have undergone since the supposed divergence with primates. Given that the vast majority of mutations are either harmful or neutral, the figures don't add up to known mutation rates.

http://www.evolutionfairytale.com/articl...

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/probl...

http://www.csulb.edu/~jmastrop/data3.htm...

Population studies, conducted with known and accepted formulas, also do not support the notion that humans or intermediates have existed on earth for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. The current population on earth of 6.5 billion people is what you would expect if mankind began around 4-6000 years ago. Had mankind begun as evolution states, the current population would exceed the number of atoms in the universe.

http://www.ldolphin.org/popul.html

Answer 13

I blame deists.