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Intelligent Design proponent says DC museum wants to 'convince visitors there’s nothing special' about humans
A Christian scientist says one of America’s most prestigious museums is promoting scientific misinformation about the history of mankind.
In a July op-ed for the New York Post, attorney and geologist Casey Luskin called out the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., for its depiction of an ape-like species as “early humans” in an effort to “convince visitors that there’s nothing special about us as human beings.”
The exhibit in the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins claims there is “only about a 1.2% genetic difference between modern humans and chimpanzees” and features large images of a human and apes with the caption, “You and chimpanzees [are] 98.8% genetically similar.”
But Luskin, who holds a Ph.D. in geology and is a fellow of the Discovery Institute, says the exhibit’s numbers are “inaccurate” in light of a study published in the journal Nature in April, which reported significantly higher genetic differences between humans and apes than previously claimed.
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A Christian scientist says one of America’s most prestigious museums is promoting scientific misinformation about the history of mankind.
In a July op-ed for the New York Post, attorney and geologist Casey Luskin called out the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., for its depiction of an ape-like species as “early humans” in an effort to “convince visitors that there’s nothing special about us as human beings.”
The exhibit in the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins claims there is “only about a 1.2% genetic difference between modern humans and chimpanzees” and features large images of a human and apes with the caption, “You and chimpanzees [are] 98.8% genetically similar.”
But Luskin, who holds a Ph.D. in geology and is a fellow of the Discovery Institute, says the exhibit’s numbers are “inaccurate” in light of a study published in the journal Nature in April, which reported significantly higher genetic differences between humans and apes than previously claimed.
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Smithsonian 'obscuring' new study finding greater gap between humans, apes than previously thought: Geologist
A Christian scientist says one of America s most prestigious museums is promoting scientific misinformation about the history of mankind
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