(May 26, 2014 at 10:17 pm)snowtracks Wrote: From a biblical viewpoint, biological similarities between humans and other primates would be expected since both are fashioned from the same substance (‘out of the ground all the beasts…”), so genetic similarities should exist between humans and other animals. And an even greater dna similarity should exist between humans and other primates since the design template is basically the same.
now in the case of human beings (made in God's image), they have a spirit which accounts for behavior and cognitive ability differences from other primates.
Okay, so we're pretty much agreed that humans and other simian primates share genetic similarities. The point of disagreement is with the mechanism for them. From an evolutionary standpoint, the similarities are well explained, as indeed are the differences; the most notable perhaps being the fusion of chromosome #2 in human DNA.
Your biblical viewpoint, on the other hand, rather than offering any explanation or mechanism, merely adds another layer of mystery which itself requires explaining. Go for it - we're all ears.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
