Ik moet eerlijk zeggen ik ben niet zo thuis in scheikunde en je zal in het meeste gedeelte wel gelijk hebben en dat ga ik ook echt niet tegenspreken want zoals ik al zei geloof ik ook heus wel in een bepaalde vorm van evolutie alleen niet in de zin zoals die met het darwinisme opgaat. Maar waar het mij omgaat.. ik dacht dat het wel duidelijk was, is dat er ergens een begin moet zijn gemaakt en als iets kan vormen dat het een scheppend vermogen heeft. En dat over die energie zo zie ik het ook begrijp me niet verkeerd ik zie het niet als iets stoffelijks maar ik zie energie weer als een scheppende energie als in God omdat het kan scheppen. En dan zal ik gelijk even een stuk tekst geven wat dat van die chimpansee tegenspreekt. Uit het boek degeneratie wel in het engels maar ik denk dat het wel moet lukken. :
Humans and chimpanzees are genetically 99% identical
This is a very popular and often-heard utterance: we are 99% the same as the apes? What are we supposed to do with that?
This figure was not arrived at on the basis of a comparison of base pairs (the entire human genome has not yet been mapped, let alone that of the chimpanzees). That was estimated on the basis of DNA hybridization. That is to say: by bringing together human and chimpanzee DNA, heating it up, which causes the strands of DNA to unfold or ‘denaturalize’, and then to let them cool off again, which causes the strands to connect into doubled DNA. At certain temperatures, DNA bonds only at those places where the base sequence corresponds closely. By comparing the lengths of human DNA that do and do not connect with chimp DNA, you can get an idea of the similarity between the two. The interpretation of this data, the degree of base pair-correspondence, is therefore a hit-or-miss method!
The figures given vary somewhat. I was able to find the following numbers:
60 million differences in base pairs, that is, 2 % difference (Biology, pp. 1045)
1.6% difference (Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, pp. 361)
96.2% correspondence, Don Batten, Creation ex nihilo 19.1, pp. 21-22
the ‘minimal’ differences are insurmountable
My reaction:
Firstly, this is not all that amazing, and secondly, we actually already knew that! It is not amazing that apes and humans live on the same earth, chew comparable plants or eat meat, breath the same air and are decomposed by the same organisms when they die. The anthropoid apes are also the ‘highest’ animals we know of. As far as organ complexity, cell structures and behavior are concerned, they are just second to humans. It is not so surprising that the genetic basis of all of that also shows strong similarities. In other words: didn’t we actually know that already? Or couldn’t we have expected it? It isn’t really anything new that they are telling us, is it?
7 million years (that is how long ago chimps and humans supposedly diverged) at 1 mutation per generation (of say 20 years) in humans, is far too short for 60 million differences!
Only one essential gene has to exist, without which no viable individuals could be produced, that does not permit fundamental mutations, and that humans have and apes do not or vice versa, and the gap between apes and humans cannot be bridged!!
Humans have 46 chromosomes and chimpanzees have 48.
Below you can see a comparison between a few chromosomes from the Human (H, blue), Chimpanzee (C, green), Gibbon (G, purple) and Orangutan (O, red), on the basis of band-patterns of chromosomes (which still says very little about differences in base pairs)
Chromosome H2 is supposedly a joining of two chromosomes from a chimpanzee. However, in that process approximately 125 chimp genes are lost (100,000 genes / 23 chromosomes x 2mm/60mm) and there is one centromeer (the piece of DNA that the ‘arms’ of the chromosomes are attached to) too many.[1]
The few millimeters of difference in H1 also contain an estimated 125 genes. And then there are the differences in bands which haven’t been mentioned yet, and the remaining 20 chromosomes. So if there is a difference of, on average, 125 genes per chromosome, then there is a total difference of 2,875 genes!
On the other hand, between 1.6% and 3.8% difference would mean that there are between 1,280 and 3,040 genes that are different in chimpanzees and in humans!
In the context of this book, it can be clear that an estimated number of 2,500 genes that are not shared is ‘somewhat’ problematic for justifying a common ancestry.
the ‘minimal’ differences are proof that man is Spirit
Besides these things, the large genetic similarity between chimpanzee and human is an incredibly strong argument in support of my thesis that man is Spirit! The greater the similarity the better, even! Spirit cannot be contained in genes. The spirit of man uses the body, it lies, rests within the body, but there is no gene that codes for a protein that is the spirit. The spirit is not of the same order as proteins. The spirit is of a much higher order. The co-operation between the genes and proteins is called metabolism. A metabolism is of a higher order than a gene or protein. Perception, the ability to observe and react to observations, is of a higher order than a metabolism. Emotion is of a higher order than perception. And so it continues. The spirit of man is of the highest order. That spirit will not be found, despite the only slightly differing genes, in chimpanzees and gorillas! The spirit of man can be recognized by the self-consciousness of man, the fact that he can make decisions, consider his actions, make choices, has a will, can make plans, think up ideas, is creative, makes art, has culture, stores knowledge, makes technology, penetrates the molecular elements of his existence, speaks a languages, writes books, sells ideas, and above all loves. And by that I do not mean the (animal) sex given us by Darwin …
The slight, genetic differences between chimpanzees and humans cannot explain this ENORMOUS spiritual barrier. That hemoglobin (which transports oxygen in red blood cells) has a somewhat different structure in chimps does not in any way explain the difference in lifestyles, in our beings, does it?!! That chimps have hair and we do not, and that there are a few genes for that which arrange it, does not explain the huge differences between us, does it? Most of the genetic differences are probably this sort of thing, so if you leave those aside and only look at brain capacity and how many genes are involved in that, how many difference do you get then? Half a percent? One-tenth of a percent? Can that tenth of a percent explain the ENORMOUS spiritual differences? The can be only one correct conclusion: man is Spirit, an ape is not.