“We can read the genes. Humans and chimpanzees have 98% shared DNA. We know humans and chimps are related.”
Similarity does not mean they are related. I could have two different structures that share basically the same features, that does not mean they were made by the same people or blueprint. A real world example are the pyramids built in Mexico and pyramids built in Egypt. If your logic was to be consistent, I could perhaps predict that you believe that there was ancient ocean trade routes from the Americas to Europe and Africa (like in 2000 BCE, before even Leif Eriksson was thought to have discovered America). This is one of many reasons I no longer believe in evolution from common decent, it is pure speculation asserted as fact, and the logic for it is all over the place. If you have come to critique me in order to “educate me,” prepare to question your reality. Yes, I have looked at peer-reviewed research as well, they won’t help you in the problem presented here.
“We can read the genes. Humans and chimpanzees have 98% shared DNA. We know humans and chimps are related.”
Similarity does not mean they are related. I could have two different structures that share basically the same features, that does not mean they were made by the same people or blueprint. A real world example are the pyramids built in Mexico and pyramids built in Egypt. If your logic was to be consistent, I could perhaps predict that you believe that there was ancient ocean trade routes from the Americas to Europe and Africa (like in 2000 BCE, before even Leif Eriksson was thought to have discovered America). This is one of many reasons I no longer believe in evolution from common decent, it is pure speculation asserted as fact, and the logic for it is all over the place. If you have come to critique me in order to “educate me,” prepare to question your reality. Yes, I have looked at peer-reviewed research as well, they won’t help you in the problem presented here.
The pyramids and Mexico and the pyramids in Egypt are related via architectural constraints and human psychology.