Question About Creationists

[Abishalom]

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Now you're just making up stuff...

Let's get this straight neither one of yall talked about similarities of humans and apes included noncoding and coding DNA nor have you established the genomes of humans and apes as "nearly identical". Chris talked about similarities in the proteins which only make up 1% of the total genome. You also never said that their noncoding and coding DNA was similar. In fact you said the exact opposite...
Which is comical because now you're trying to claim that you've established the human and ape genome as "nearly identical"...

But your post goes back to my main point. If 99% of the genome is noncoding DNA and this is where the major difference lie in (your words), then you cannot support the human/ape evolution claim with the 1% of protein coding. By your own admission noncoding DNA serves a different function than that of protein coding DNA despite a vast majority of NCD function being unknown. That in it of itself would suggest that the sequence would be different in humans in apes. Like I've pointed out the only studies we have thus far are based on a small percentage of the total population of 3 billion.

Reading comprehension isn't one of your strong points is it?

The average differences between the DNA of humans and chimpanzees for various "types" of DNA sequences.

Coding DNA:
• Synonymous (silent) substitutions in DNA coding for proteins: 1.11%
• Non-synonymous (amino-acid altering) substitutions in DNA coding for proteins: 0.80%
• Amino acid changes: 1.34%

Non-coding DNA:
Autosomal intergenic DNA (noncoding DNA between genes and not on sex chromosomes): 1.24%
• X-chromosome intergenic DNA: 1.16%
• Y-chromosome intergenic DNA: 1.68%
• Intronic DNA (DNA inside exons that is removed before mRNA is transcribed): 1.03%
• Psuedogenes (genes that have lost their functions due to mutations, deletions, or transposable elements): 1.56%
• Differences in Alus (the most abundant mobile element/retrotransposons in primates comprising about 10% of your genome): 2%

Summarized from

Chen, F.C. & Li, W.H. Genomic divergences between humans and other hominoids and the effective population size of the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. American journal of human genetics 68, 444-56 (2001).

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Is you comprehension lacking? Have you ever heard of sample size?

Excerpt from abstract of said study...

To study the genomic divergences among hominoids and to estimate the effective population size of the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, we selected 53 autosomal intergenic nonrepetitive DNA segments from the human genome and sequenced them in a human, a chimpanzee, a gorilla, and an orangutan.

Do you know what that means when it says they selected 53 segments? But wait they tell us how long these 53 segments are...

The sequence divergences in other regions between hominoids were estimated from extensive data in GenBank and the literature, and Alus showed the highest divergence, followed in order by Y-linked noncoding regions, pseudogenes, autosomal intergenic regions, X-linked noncoding regions, synonymous sites, introns, and nonsynonymous sites. The neighbor-joining tree derived from the concatenated sequence of the 53 segments--24,234 bp in length--supports the Homo-Pan clade with a 100% bootstrap value

24,234 base pairs...out of 3 billion possible...which corroborates another point I made earlier...