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the genetic make-ups of man and chimpanzee. However:
1) As was made clear in the preceding pages, work on the chim-
panzee genome is not yet complete. Therefore, it is not possible to
make a reliable comparison of the human and chimpanzee genomes.

2) Moreover, as mentioned above, the results from molecular
comparisons generally conflict with evolutionists' expectations; for
this reason the existence of a molecular similarity between two
species cannot be regarded as sufficient reason to accept an evolution-
ary relationship between them.
3) Another point requiring clarification, apart from all the above

considerations, is the fact recent analyses have shown that the genetic
difference between man and the chimpanzee is three times greater
than previously believed. Research on this subject states that, con-
trary to the allegations in some evolutionist publications, the genetic
similarity between man and chimpanzee is not 98% at all, but rather

is really no more than 95%. An article titled "Humans, chimps more
different than thought," which appeared on the CNN website on
September 25, 2002, reported the results of this research in these
terms:
There are more differences between a chimpanzee and a human
being than once believed, according to a new genetic study.

Biologists have long held that the genes of chimps and humans are
about 98.5 percent identical. But a biologist at the California
Institute of Technology, said in a study published this week that a
new way of comparing the genes shows that the human and chimp
genetic similarity is only about 95 percent.

The biologist based this on a computer program that compared
780,000 of the 3 billion base pairs in the human DNA helix with

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