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Chimps and humans: How similar are we really?

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To meet your own requirements, wouldn't you have to go back in time and watch the mutation occur?

Have you ever known creationists to remain internally consistent in their argumentation?

Plus - still waiting for pshun to tell us what the 2nd law of genetics is...
 
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Great - is it your position that each of those is produced with some independent and specific number of mutations?

If so, what is the justification for that position?
 
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I note, pshun, that you never replied to this.

Despite your protestations, and your claims of a great grasp of the science, I find that the things a creationist deigns not to address is often more relevant and informative than what they will.
 
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What is the genetic context? Was it only those two being compared?

If we were to look at an expanded sequence, and they prove to be identical in 95 out of 100 nucleotides, you will provide the same implied dismissal. Yet you will never say (on here, anyway) what interpretation you actually prefer and support it with rationale/evidence.

They say one or the other is a mutation, only if that is true then which one?

Would it matter?

If you were to look at a comparison of sequence from 2 humans, and they showed differences like those you show above - what would you conclude?

That they were independently created that way? I could easily pick apart that 'explanation.' Which is why, I suppose, creationists never seem to actually present a case FOR creation.

What was it you've written about those that accept evolution - ah yes - the brainwashed will just accept such "explanations".
When asked if they qould please show when it was not mutated so we can SEE which one is the actual mutation, they cannot show us one example! Instead they then say it happened in a Common Ancestor.

Same thing in humans? Or will there be special pleading?
So being told that and we also ask, “Okay fine, can you please show me a sample of their genome so I can compare the sequence”? So I can really see which one is the mutation and which one is not?” Again they cannot.

Actually, we can infer it from extant lineages providing we have more than just the two to compare.

Again, I am surprised that someone with 30 years of science experience does not understand this.


Because it is inferred, in the same way that one could infer your relationship to a person that you don;t even know you are related to, without knowing where, many generations back, your 'lineages' split.

All I see here is a willingness to dismiss that which goes against one's presuppositions.
We’re just supposed to believe it because they told us it is true? No...show us!

Just-so stories are in the realm of religion, not science.

You are supposed to accept that conclusion because there is evidence to support it. You spend a great deal of effort frantically trying to dismiss and find fault with that evidence, the methods, the people, etc. rather than provide counter evidence.

You may fool and convince people in your bible study, but look around - there are several active posters on this forum right now that actually have experience and knowledge in these areas that surpass yours.
You don't fool them.
Interesting, seeing as how just a few days ago you had to ask for a link to the chimp genome paper. You a speed reader?
And when you simply ignore or dismiss the evidence?

There is a nice old paper called "Reexamination of the African hominoid trichotomy with additional sequences from the primate β-globin gene cluster". It may be hard to find a PDF, but do try. In these older (1992) phylogeny papers, the sequence data was usually printed as part of the paper - this paper has like 10 pages of sequence data from multiple taxa, nicely lined up and easy to see. In this context, you can clearly see the trends in substitution. well, that is, if you are not dead-set against substitutions occurring.
What if?

You think it was supposed to be that way, burden of proof is on YOU.
oops...

Yes, IF. Again, let's see your evidence.

One has to ASSUME that at one time the genomes were the same (in a Common Ancestor).

That assumption is actually premised on conclusions drawn from many other sources.

When you did ELISAs in your lab days, did you ASSUME that the means by which they were claimed to work was based in reality? Why did you rely on that ASSUMPTION? Did you re-run all of the experimental work employed in coming up with the ELISA system in the first each time you used it, or did you just ASSUME that it would work?
Now to confirm it one must produce an example of the original model for comparison or else the whole assumption remains in the realm of the theoretical and hypothetical. You CAN see that makes sense can't you?

Sure, it makes sense for a dedicated creationist to make such unrealistic and biased demands - and to reject the underlying justifications for the types of analyses employed and so on. it is an act of desperation cloaked in 'science.'
I mean in all cases of contract law any claims of insertions or deletions must be demonstrated to assure confirmation.

Ah. A totally inapt analogy. Followed by irrelevant and unnecessary verbiage. Surprising!
 
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How was your comparison done? Explain it.

Analysis of the two created beings shows that 100% of the building blocks
that form the features of the two beings include design elements capable
of forming the observed design features. This allows that have the same
designer during the construction.

Analysis of the final design might show a commonality that would
support the same designer theory.
 
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Also, humans share a common ancestor with bananas that was neither a human nor a banana. We would expect to see shared DNA between the banana and human genome.

Pretty good proof that people and bananas are siblings.

 
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Shouldn't our closest relative share the most DNA with us?

You invented the closest relative ordering based on observable features and functions.
Given that final form and function are dictated by DNA, your original ordering
should match well with the genetic ordering you create.

DNA simply reflects the original ordering done by people with eyes. It adds little new
to the original ordering method.
 
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We share a common ancestor with worms, so we would expect to find homologous genes in the worm and human genome. How is this a problem for the theory of evolution?

They share a common designer so have the same DNA "machines".
How is this a problem for Creationists?
 
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They share a common designer so have the same DNA "machines".
How is this a problem for Creationists?

Because the similarity is a nested hierarchy which reflects the morphology, and which by any intelligent understanding makes for truly dreadful design. Using just flight as an example:

Why design a winged bird that cannot fly?
Why do the flightless penguins have the same hollow bone structure that flying birds have?
Why do flying bats have solid bones?
Why is the bat wing bone structure more similar to the human hand than a bird wing?


All of these questions are well answered by evolution. ID has no answer at all.
 
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All of these questions are well answered by evolution. ID has no answer at all.
They also have no answer for why the genetic differences between species look exactly like accumulated mutations.
 
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1 Environmental conditions change are on schedule.
2. 1.
3. It works.
4. It works.
 
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1 Environmental conditions change are on schedule.
2. 1.
3. It works.
4. It works.

These are very poor responses. What does "environmental conditions change on schedule" have to do with bats, that live in the same environment as birds, having different wing and bone structure?

Secondly, "it works" has 0 explanatory power. You might as well say goddidit and be done with. I didn't even mention that on a whole genome level bats are more closely related to humans mice and whales than birds.

And that's the thing. I can keep adding in extra data, and evolution still fits. ID just gets lost. Iders microscope in one one tiny detail. We try to account for all of the data.

Humans and bats have 3 ear bones, and we both give live birth and suckle our offspring. The more data you add, the sillier ID looks.

Further example: I work in data science. Alot of my first time users/clients tell me they use excel for their data management. That is something which both "works" and is an awful idea/design.
 
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Great post, sadly it will fall on deaf ears.
 
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"...God's Holy Word which agrees with every discovery of mankind."

That sounds made-up. How did God's word agree with the discovery of Pluto?

False, since you have confused Humans (descendants of Adam) with the sons of God (prehistoric people).

"Sons" - who are these 'sons'? Specifically, who are they, and what is the evidence that they really were sons of God?
 
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You fail to mention that it means very little how much DNA is shared
since it is a building block.

You Share 70% of Your Genes with This Slimy Marine Worm


It is a bad thing that the Republican Party has been glorifying ignorance for a few decades now.

That slimy worm is made up of.... Cells, yes?

We are also made up of cells, yes? Trillions of them.

With your vast knowledge of basic cellular biology, perhaps you can explain why we might share many genes with a slimy worm.

But I doubt it.
 
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Genes organize living systems. The more systems in common, the more likely similar DNA.
 
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If DNA decides 'how you look', then tell us all about the DNA of sharks and whales. Tell us all about the DNA of seals and bears, or manatees and elephants.

Surely, with all of your learnin', you can?
What would you like to know?
 
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