(February 2, 2018 at 1:17 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 2, 2018 at 11:19 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm not saying they are non sentient robots. I'm saying that what they DO have isn't enough to qualify as having moral responsibility, and thus, moral free will. Meaning God isn't going to punish "immoral dogs" for being immoral. They are all morally innocent.
Humans may only be 2% away from Chimps, but that 2% difference is HUGE, by orders of magnitude.
Anyways, I find it interesting that the same people who minimize the difference between humans and animal so easily dismiss the similarity of unborn and mature humans. Also, if the difference between animals and humans is one of degree and not of kind why then do these same individuals also insist that unborn humans are different in kind and not degree from mature humans?
Most estimates are at less than 1% but there are a number of different ways that is counted. The second answer to this question at the Biology Stack Exchange makes a different but interesting comparison.
Quote:Perhaps the best way to understand the relation between DNA sequence divergence and the differences between human and chimpanzee physiology and morphology is to compare these differences to the variability among humans. Human-chimp DNA sequence divergence is roughly 10 times the divergence between random pairs of humans.
https://biology.stackexchange.com/questi...r-primates
Ten times the variation between chimps and humans in comparison to what you can find between individual humans does not strike me as being very great. I would think the difference between the inter human variation and the difference between ourselves and other mammals I would expect to find much, much greater. Alas I find no figures on the internet.