Genetics was never my strong point but having stumbled about in these fields for some time I came to the inevitable conclusion that we are indeed dealing with something that puts rocket science back in its simplistic place! Darwin was living in a world shielded from necessary intricacies of mind blowing proportions. Many have followed his lead, to be inevitably re-educated at last! If we go to the trouble of reading the extract from a learned evolution site below, we are perhaps startled to learn that in terms of raw genetic information alone, all living things are really quite similar. It is the information systems of the biosphere that blow the mind. Below the (italicized) extract is a brief extract from my site. I set about to determine the facts. We are now within sight of the possibility of discerning what actually happened at species transformation -- it has to have been truly sophisticated. You will understand that we are not chimpanzees -- but it is not because we have dissimilar genetic information. It is because we can not mate with them so as to have viable offspring. This immediately destroys Darwin's hypothesis, because his hypothesis demands a chimp-like creature changing so much it became a human. At some moment in this progressive change, the chimp-like creature was yet a chimp. The very next generation, it was fully human. There is no other way --- unless something which no longer can happen in the biosphere, happened in the past! Species transformations did happen, millions of them. What happened at species transformation?
The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent identical in their DNA is hard to accept for some people, who can't comprehend how we could share so much of our basic genetic endowment even with the most humanlike ape. Yet this genetic similarity is very real, and it dramatically shows how parsimonious natural selection can be -- it reuses genes and structures that have worked well in the past.
It was also mind-boggling when, in 1987, British researchers demonstrated that a human gene could be inserted into the cells of a lowly yeast -- and it functioned perfectly well. In this landmark experiment, researchers Paul Nurse and Melanie G. Lee showed that the gene in question, one that controlled the division of cells, was extremely similar despite the fact that yeast and the distant ancestors of humans diverged about 1 billion years ago.
How did new species arise? Extract from creationtheory dot com -- (also found in my book, The Tree of Life and the Origin of the Species.)
The answer to this question must meet the following requirements:
1. Explains adaption of new species to environment.
2. Explains how new species can arise without being the genetic offspring
of an old species.
3. Explains how species are functional units built from discrete packages of information (the platypus, for example, is obviously the outcome of a selective process acting on a finite number of discrete packages of information -- those discrete packages of information also being available to birds, mammals and reptiles.) ................ .