The WHY Chromosome

When Tom Woodward interviewed me for his March 24, 2010 weekly radio program,Darwin or Design, he mentioned the way the chimp Y chromosome discovery was handled by the media. I haven’t commented on that before, but I should:
For years you and I have heard that chimpanzee and human DNA are 90-something percent identical. (Usually it’s 98%, but you can see my comments on that in a former post.) Of course that was flaunted as proof that the two species were so close on the evolutionary tree, having climbed out on different branches very recently. Evolution must be true!
As Tom pointed out on the program, articles like the one in Science Daily taught that the wonderful discovery that drastic differences between chimpanzee and human Y chromosome is evidence for how fast we have evolved from common ancestors! So, similarity shows how we evolved from a common ancestor, and difference shows how we evolved from a common ancestor. Maybe Tom and I are missing something here, but if the evidence always proves evolution, no matter what the evidence says, I feel a little deceived. If the evidence can fall either way and still prove the same thing, I’m not falling for it.

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