Expert: Brenda Martin - 4/17/2008

Question
This question has some points not mentioned in most chromosome similarity.

In the webpage "An Ecolutionary Manifesto", at "UVM", the University of Vermont, that can be Googled, they show pictures of the G-Band patterns for four primates; Chimpanzee, Gorilla, Orangutan, and Human.

They show very similar chromosome G-Band patterns and chronosome counts, with just a few architectual transpositions, and a couple chromasome count difference, but, otherwise, show large tracts of architectural similarity, compared to plants or other animals with grossy different chromosome counts and architectural patterns (suggesting evolutionary distance).

***And, contrarily, no lifeform like a bacteria for example, has ever been shown with such similar chomosome counts and architecture, to show gross lifeform differences having similar G-Banding patterns.  Which would be a scientific breakthrough, and destroy Darwin too.

Now the Bible says that God made us a special creation from the clay of the earth, and not derived from primates, accordingly in Genesis 2:7.

***Why did God not spend the time and at least rewrite our genetics, so for example, we had 100 chromosomes and with the G-Band architectures grossly rearranged.  It wouldn't have proven that there is a God, but it would have killed Darwin's great idea in its tracks.  In fact, scientists might think we were aliens from another plant, if anything, because our genes would have been so different from any lifeform on earth.  God can do anything ... but He cut-and-pasted primate code to make human code.  Was God being lazy, or trying to be the author of direct confusion?

Thank you for your answer, ahead of time.

Answer
Reference works give credence to such an alleged close kinship of certain animals with humans. The World Book Encyclopedia, for example, says: “Human beings, along with apes, lemurs, monkeys, and tarsiers, make up the order of mammals called primates.”

Yet, the fact is, humans are brimming with unique traits that do not fit the animal mold. Among these are love, conscience, morality, spirituality, justice, mercy, humor, creativity, awareness of time, self-awareness, aesthetic appreciation, concern for the future, the ability to accumulate knowledge over generations, and the hope that death is not the ultimate end of our existence.

A recent analysis of the DNA of chimpanzees and orangutans, as well as of certain monkeys and macaques, has revealed that their genetic makeup is not as similar to man’s as scientists once thought.

“LARGE differences in DNA, not small ones, separate apes and monkeys from both humans and each other,” says Britain’s New Scientist magazine. “There are LARGE deletions and insertions sprinkled throughout the chromosome,” explains Kelly Frazer of Perlegen Sciences, the California, U.S.A., company that did the analysis. New Scientist characterized the differences as a “yawning gap that divides monkeys and us.”

"He cut-and-pasted primate code to make human code.  Was God being lazy, or trying to be the author of direct confusion?

No; the fact is that both animals and man were created from the same dust, breathe the same air, and in death both go to the same place. Both are made from dust and both return to dust again.

Brenda