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Sarabee Since you think humans are an exception, let's specifically discuss the evidence of
human evolution and our relation to other primates. Let's see how creation better explains this evidence.
Human Chromosome 2Examining genetic code has really given us a good reason to question why, if creation were true, it was done in such a way that it appears much more like common descent.
Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes while the other great apes to which we are related have 24 pairs of chromosomes. On the face of it, this presents a problem for the theory of evolution and common decent. Why don’t the apes with whom we ostensibly share an ancestor have the same number of chromosomes as humans? According to evolution, all the great apes evolved from a common ancestor. Since an organism could not survive the complete deletion of a chromosome pair, evolution predicts that this missing pair must be extant somewhere in the gene code. If it’s not then evolution is dead in the water.
But it is and we find it at human chromosome number 2. There we find the missing chromosome pair sandwiched between two other chromosomes with telomeres (the caps usually found on the outside of a chromosome) in the middle. A fused pair of chromosomes. So that missing chromosome pair wasn’t missing, it had just been fused with another pair of ape chromosomes.
Endogenous RetrovirusesTo me the study of retrovirus genetic material offers some of the most compelling evidence for evolution.
Retroviruses are viruses that reproduce by inserting their genetic information into host cells which then replicate.
When these viruses infect reproductive cells, their genetic information is passed on to the progeny of the host. This results in the presence of retroviral rna in our human genetic code. Junk dna from a foreign organism.
The interesting thing is that we’ve been able to map the genome of other animals. For instance, the chimpanzee. When we look at the chimp’s dna we find, to an astonishing degree, the same retroviral genetics in the same places that we find them in human dna.
So why is there useless, inactive junk genetic information in our genome that corresponds so well to that of chimps? Evolution tells us that it is because of common decent. That humans and chimpanzees evolved from a common ancestor that also had that retroviral rna in those places.
If you espouse a creation model, you must then explain why a creator might include useless, garbage genetic information in the same places in different species.
Notice that the answer to ALL the evidence i have offered so far can be explained by shared ancestry and common descent. What single, unifying creation-based answer can you offer which has the same explanatory and predictive power?
