Page 176 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

174

Even if there is a 98% resemblance between the chimpanzee and human
genomes, it is illogical to infer that man is 98% chimpanzee. Human be-
ings share specific genes with a great many other living things. For exam-

ple, according to analyses carried in New Scientist magazine, a 75% re-
semblance has been determined between human DNA and that of nema-
tode worms. 122 However, this hardly means that human beings are 75%
worm, or that there is only a 25% difference between them! Some evolu-
tionists even see and speak of the illogicality of such inferences. Prof.
Steven Jones issued a reminder if a 50% similarity is revealed between
human beings and bananas, that will not mean that human beings are
50% banana. It is known that even if the genes in two life forms are the
same, they can still work in entirely different ways. Moreover, genes are
sometimes involved in more than one function, and one function is con-
trolled by more than one gene. This broadens the mathematical difference
to a very considerable extent.

But analyses of various proteins show that human beings are very
close related to very different life forms. In one study, researchers from
Cambridge University compared the proteins of various terrestrial life
forms. Astonishingly, in just about all the examples used, human be-
ings and chickens turned out to be one another's closest relatives. Our
next closest "relative" is the crocodile. 123
Another example that evolutionists use to claim genetic similarity
between man and ape is the fact that humans have 46 chromosomes,
and chimpanzees and gorillas have 48. Evolutionists regard similarity
between chromosome numbers as an indication of an evolutionary re-

lationship. Yet if their logic were correct, man would have another rel-
ative just as close as the chimpanzee: the potato!
The potato has exactly the same number of chromosomes as the
chimpanzee and the gorilla: 48. On the other hand, the wild hare has
124
exactly the same number of chromosomes as human beings: 46. These
examples show that similar numbers represent no evidence at all for