Many evolutionist sources from time to time carry
the claim that humans and apes share 99 percent of their genetic
information and that this is proof of evolution. This evolutionist
claim focuses particularly on chimpanzees, and says that this
creature is the closest monkey to man, for which reason there
is a kinship between the two. However, this is a false proof
put forward by evolutionists who take advantage of the layman's
lack of information on these subjects.
99% similarity claim is misleading
For a very long time, the
evolutionist choir had been propagating the unsubstantiated
thesis that there is very little genetic difference between
humans and chimps. In every piece of evolutionist literature,
you could read sentences like "we are 99 percent identical
to chimps" or "there is only 1 percent of DNA that makes us
human." Although no conclusive comparison between human and
chimp genomes has been done, the Darwinist ideology led them
to assume that there is very little difference between the
A study in October 2002 revealed that the evolutionist
propaganda on this issue-like many others-is completely false.
Humans and chimps are not "99% similar" as the evolutionist
fairy tale went on. Genetic similarity turns out to be less
than 95 %. In a news story reported by CNN.com, entitled "Humans,
chimps more different than thought," it reads:
There are more differences between a chimpanzee
and a human being than once believed, according to a new
Biologists have long held that the genes
of chimps and humans are about 98.5 percent identical. But
Roy Britten, 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.
Britten based this on a computer
program that compared 780,000 of the 3 billion base pairs
in the human DNA helix with those of the chimp. He found more
mismatches than earlier researchers had, and concluded that
at least 3.9 percent of the DNA bases were different.
This led him to conclude that there is
a fundamental genetic difference between the species of
about 5 percent.25
New Scientist, a leading science magazine
and a strong supporter of Darwinism, reported the following
on the same subject in an article titled "Human-chimp DNA
We are more unique than
previously thought, according to new comparisons of human
and chimpanzee DNA. It has long been held that we share
98.5 per cent of our genetic material with our closest relatives.
That now appears to be wrong. In fact, we share less than
95 per cent of our genetic material, a three-fold increase
in the variation between us and chimps.26
Boy Britten and other evolutionists continue to assess the
result in terms of the evolutionary theory, but in fact there
is no scientific reason to do so. The theory of evolution
is supported neither by the fossil record nor by genetic or
biochemical data. On the contrary, evidence shows that different
life forms on Earth appeared quite abruptly without any evolutionary
ancestors and that their complex systems prove the existence
of an "intelligent design."
Human DNA is also similar to that
of the worm, mosquito, and chicken!
the above-mentioned basic proteins are common vital molecules
present, not just in chimpanzees, but also in very many completely
different living creatures. The structure of the proteins
in all these species is very similar to that of the proteins
present in humans.
For example, the genetic analyses published in
New Scientist have revealed a 75% similarity between
the DNA of nematode worms and man.27
This definitely does not mean that there is only a 25% difference
between man and these worms!
On the other hand, in another
finding which also appeared in the media, it was stated that
the comparisons carried out between the genes of fruit
flies belonging to the Drosophila genus and human genes yielded
a similarity of 60%.28
When living things other than
man are studied, it appears that there is no molecular relationship
such as that claimed by evolutionists.29
This fact shows that the concept of similarity is not evidence
"Common design": The reason for
It is surely natural for
the human body to bear some molecular similarities to other
living beings, because they all are made up of the same molecules,
they all use the same water and atmosphere, and they all consume
foods consisting of the same molecules. Certainly, their metabolisms,
and therefore their genetic make-ups, would resemble one another.
This, however, is not evidence that they evolved from
a common ancestor.
This "common material" is the result not of evolution
but of "common design," that is, of their being created upon
the same plan.
It is possible to explain this matter with an
example: all construction in the world is done with similar
materials (brick, iron, cement, etc.). This, however, does
not mean that these buildings "evolved" from each other. They
are constructed separately by using common materials. The
same holds for living beings as well.
However, the complexity of the structure of living
things cannot be compared to that of bridges, of course.
Life did not originate as the result of unconscious
coincidences as evolution claims, but as the result of the
creation of God, the Almighty, the possessor of infinite knowledge
27. Karen Hopkin, "The Greatest Apes," New
Scientist, vol. 62, issue 2186, 15 May 1999, p. 27
28. Hurriyet, February 24, 2000
29. Harun Yahya, Darwinism Refuted,