Question About Creationists

[Abishalom]

As both Chris and I have already pointed out the similarities include both the coding and noncoding DNA. It is therefore a representation of the entire genome.

Having established that the entire genomes of humans and chimps is nearly identical, perhaps you'd like to explain to us what knowing the function any given segment makes to its value as evidence for common decent?

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...

Do you understand don’t you Abishalom that even though we don’t know the function of most of that noncoding DNA it is still very similar between closely related species? For example most of the differences in the DNA of humans and chimps are in the noncoding genes not the coding genes.

Do you understand that the reason you don’t have a tail lies not in coding genes but in the noncoding genes? It is because noncoding regions control how the coding genes are activated and read.

Which is comical because now you're trying to claim that you've established the human and ape genome as "nearly identical"...Well maybe you're not aware that the genome includes both coding and noncoding DNA. So those differences in the noncoding DNA of humans and apes that you've admitted to contradicts your whole "nearly identical" claim considering that noncoding DNA is about 99% of the genome...

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.