Question About Creationists

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It's more than simply a claim (and I'm not the one who made it). It's actual peer-reviewed and published research; y'know, sciency stuff. I actually couldn't care less what the function of that 97% is. In fact, let's raise that to 100%. I am not myself an evolutionary biologist - my personal field is astronomy - however I can read and I do in fact enjoy learning from people whose knowledge outstrips mine (which is sort of the point, really). Try doing what I did; dig around some of the research papers. Hell, there's videos of this stuff being presented at lectures.

I've done some reading on this issue. That's where I got my information from. All scientists are doing to make this claim is using observed events and stretching them to fit their imagination. It goes a little like this...since there is evidence of telomere fusion in chromosome 2 for humans and none for said chromosomes in apes this suggests common ancestry of apes/humans. Do you see the faulty logic? A single fusion incident has never been documented to make such drastic changes in organisms. Also, you're underestimating the implications of the vast amount of unknown of the human genome function. Don't worry the scientists that are making these claims are doing the same thing (they did the same thing with the field of genetics in the first place)...