{"id":88391,"date":"2025-07-03T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=88391"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:04:13","slug":"humans-and-chimpanzees-are-not-99-genetically-similar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/humans-and-chimpanzees-are-not-99-genetically-similar\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans and Chimpanzees are Not 99% Genetically Similar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Source:<\/strong> Robert Carter, “Humans and chimpanzees are NOT 99% identical<\/a>,”\u00a0Creation Ministries<\/em> International, 3 July 2025.<\/p>\n

“Yes, humans and chimpanzees do share a lot of DNA, but when you include what they\u00a0don’t<\/em> share, the percent identity drops significantly, into the low 80% range.”<\/p>\n

How similar are humans and chimpanzees? “about 85%”<\/p>\n

“The evolutionary model … will gladly accept high similarity levels, but there is a cliff on the other side of the argument. If we are too dissimilar, they cannot explain the differences in their 6.5 million years. They do have the ability to back up the time to the most recent common ancestor, but even that ability is limited. A few years ago, some scientists were arguing for 13 million years. Some wanted to push the time even further back, but the paleontologists would have none of that because that would necessitate putting early apes in with the dinosaurs. They are stuck. The difference must be low. Period.”<\/p>\n

“Over 6.5 million years (~300,000 generations) they would expect 15 million differences between each species and our common ancestor, or about 30 million differences between us and them today.\u00a030 million differences \/ 3 billion letters = 1%. THIS is why they have been quoting that 1% figure all these years, and this is why they have been resisting anything else. If the number is much greater, things do not work out in their favor. When the difference grows past that level, their models break down. It is simply too hard to explain so many differences, even in their ‘millions of years’ mindset.”<\/p>\n

“There are also questions about population growth and how it affects all calculations. Given that the human population has been expanding (since the Flood or since the invention of agriculture, take your pick), ZERO genetic variants have become fixed in the human genome for the last 10,000 years in the evolutionary timeline. How does ‘no evolution for 10,000 years’ affect the evolutionary forecast?”<\/p>\n

“Because evolution needs new genes to arise and\u00a0activate<\/em>. Humans and chimpanzees do not just differ at the nucleotide level. Our genes are not used in the same ways and our brains have very different wiring pathways. Those changes would not just have to arise. No, they would have to arise, spread out and replace whatever original gene was in that place, and then integrate themselves into the already complex regulatory processes that exist.\u00a0The ‘fact’ that they have been trumpeting from the rooftops since the 1970s turns out to be no fact at all. The real difference is NOT 1%. No, it is 15x greater.\u00a0This is a massive problem even for the “1%” crowd. Now that we know the human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 10 times more different than they thought, the problem of evolution only becomes that much more difficult.”<\/p>\n

“God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good<\/em>” (Genesis 1:25).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Robert Carter, “Humans and chimpanzees are NOT 99% identical,”\u00a0Creation Ministries International, 3 July 2025. “Yes, humans and chimpanzees do share a lot of DNA, but when you include what they\u00a0don’t share, the percent identity drops significantly, into the low 80% range.” How similar are humans and chimpanzees? “about 85%” “The evolutionary model … will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-88391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33072,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/you-cant-claim-that-men-can-eat-meat-because-adam-and-eve-did-not-exist\/","url_meta":{"origin":88391,"position":0},"title":"You can’t claim that men can eat meat because Adam and Eve did not exist!","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I am not going to spend the time on pointing out the contradictions and major flaws in your 'bible-based' theories about why animals may be hunted,slaughtered and consumed at our peril, for the entire article and your reasoning is so deraged that it would probably be a waste of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38737,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/did-eating-from-the-forbidden-tree-give-adam-and-eve-intelligence\/","url_meta":{"origin":88391,"position":1},"title":"Did eating from the forbidden tree give Adam and Eve intelligence?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: After Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, they realized they were naked. Is it not that some kind of intelligence that was revealed in their mind? I am saying this because chimpanzees and other animals move around nude without realizing they are naked. Answer: Intelligence was already\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33141,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/closing-the-door-on-the-non-human-neanderthal-myth\/","url_meta":{"origin":88391,"position":2},"title":"Closing the Door on the Non-Human Neanderthal Myth","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"by\u00a0Joshua Gurtler Modified slightly from the original publication in Biblical Insights Magazine, April 2015. It was once assumed that Neanderthal man was a missing link in human evolution. Now that evolutionists themselves have thoroughly debunked that idea, public schools continue to teach our most vulnerable young minds that Neanderthal man\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":87468,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-happens-to-the-neanderthals-in-the-resurrection\/","url_meta":{"origin":88391,"position":3},"title":"What happens to the Neanderthals in the resurrection?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello Brother, This is a question received from an atheist. Your reply with biblical evidence will help me study this subject further. \"Homo sapiens appeared on earth about two million years ago. In the Bible, there is a brief history of a tribe for around six thousand years. It\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10547,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/when-and-why-did-humans-start-eating-meats\/","url_meta":{"origin":88391,"position":4},"title":"When and why did humans start eating meats?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: When and why did humans start eating meat? Answer: When the world was first created, mankind was given vegetables to eat. \"And God said, \"See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36188,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/are-body-hair-ear-wiggling-and-such-things-proof-of-evolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":88391,"position":5},"title":"Are body hair, ear wiggling, and such things proof of evolution?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I was watching a video, and on it, it showed that there was a remnant of another eyelid on humans or something like that, and then said that it could have been used for sweeping dirt out of the eyes (or something like that). I think they were saying\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}