brother Paul
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I was a Clinical Trial Assistant trained in Biomedical Lab Technique (97 avg in Biochem) for well over a decade and worked for some of the most famous Big Pharma and Biotech firms...and my niece Robin was one of the Geneticists working for the Human Genome Project at the time of its completion here at Whitehead Institute. We always talk and debate…
So my Peeps! I love you all, but you must see into the language of persuasion. First off the 1.8% difference propaganda regarding the similarity between human and chimp is just that. It is propaganda! It is actually more like 5% (National Geographic claims 4% but close enough to show the smaller number to be propaganda) and most scientists agree.
In the limited sections exploring the limited aspects of the genome that they used to derive these dwarfed figures it is understood by their PR people that the common person does not understand and thus will be persuaded by the appeal to authority fallacy and by faith in statistics (see How to Lie with Statistics,by Darrell Huff…a must read for most statisticians in today’s Universities).
ENLIGHTENMENT!!! A complete genome comparison of human and chimp DNA HAS BEVER BEEN DONE (period)! They give you such an impression because they KNOW you DO NOT know, and that’s the only reason.
Now then, when speaking of the “Genome” we are speaking of much more than just the recorded sequencing of DNA in a given or comparative species (which again has never actually been done). But without going off into all that (and there is much) when we take the Chimp vs. Human “differences” as slight as 5 % may sound, that difference is HUGE.
About 67% of the DNA of all species categorized as “Primate” is the identical but this just translates into our having blood vessels, skin, a heart pump a brain and so on. This does not mean one came from the other no matter how you spin it….but that this means we are all in that category and nothing else. Via this section we all are mammals, with hair, and genitalia, and so on (that’s all). The approximated 5% difference exists only in the other 33% which means we have an actual difference of about 1/6th of what makes us human as opposed to chimp, and that number of differences in the base pairs is in the millions.
The Human Haploid Genome contains around 3 BILLION base pairs. Now take away the 2,010,000,000 same pairs (the 67%) and that leaves 990,000,000 of which 1/6th means there are 165,000,000 differences in the base pairs between humans and chimps.
WOW! That’s HUGE…it’s like the difference between algebra and calculus…the amount of information encoded in over 160 MILLION base pairs is unfathomable and more than a whole think tank of Genius level scientists could ever contain in 10 lifetimes. Now compare such a think tank to the knowledge held by any general group of common persons in 10 lifetimes. See the difference?
Now this is true, and what I want you to see is how when we look at statistics of the very same genomic portrait from a different prospective area of approach what a different picture we get. That’s number one.
Secondly, Evolutionary Biologists love to ignore or neglect the 2nd law of genetics when media-presenting their persuasions. The second law tells us (this is a demonstrable, observable, test confirmed reality) that recessive traits (such as ape-kind if they indeed were our ancestors) not only repeat themselves in future generations BUT on occasion actually revert and we see examples in the species (of plant or animal) when the qualities and characteristics or the recessive type TAKE OVER and re-present themselves.
So if this premise were true, then Ape-like Sapiens and Sapiens with distinctly Ape-like (or chimp like, or banana like) qualities would have been reappearing all through humanoid history. But alas this has never been the case.
Thirdly, the EBs never make the case for common genetic evolution form Chimp kind but from Ape kind (australopithicene) and the actual known differences are even much greater.
So my Peeps! I love you all, but you must see into the language of persuasion. First off the 1.8% difference propaganda regarding the similarity between human and chimp is just that. It is propaganda! It is actually more like 5% (National Geographic claims 4% but close enough to show the smaller number to be propaganda) and most scientists agree.
In the limited sections exploring the limited aspects of the genome that they used to derive these dwarfed figures it is understood by their PR people that the common person does not understand and thus will be persuaded by the appeal to authority fallacy and by faith in statistics (see How to Lie with Statistics,by Darrell Huff…a must read for most statisticians in today’s Universities).
ENLIGHTENMENT!!! A complete genome comparison of human and chimp DNA HAS BEVER BEEN DONE (period)! They give you such an impression because they KNOW you DO NOT know, and that’s the only reason.
Now then, when speaking of the “Genome” we are speaking of much more than just the recorded sequencing of DNA in a given or comparative species (which again has never actually been done). But without going off into all that (and there is much) when we take the Chimp vs. Human “differences” as slight as 5 % may sound, that difference is HUGE.
About 67% of the DNA of all species categorized as “Primate” is the identical but this just translates into our having blood vessels, skin, a heart pump a brain and so on. This does not mean one came from the other no matter how you spin it….but that this means we are all in that category and nothing else. Via this section we all are mammals, with hair, and genitalia, and so on (that’s all). The approximated 5% difference exists only in the other 33% which means we have an actual difference of about 1/6th of what makes us human as opposed to chimp, and that number of differences in the base pairs is in the millions.
The Human Haploid Genome contains around 3 BILLION base pairs. Now take away the 2,010,000,000 same pairs (the 67%) and that leaves 990,000,000 of which 1/6th means there are 165,000,000 differences in the base pairs between humans and chimps.
WOW! That’s HUGE…it’s like the difference between algebra and calculus…the amount of information encoded in over 160 MILLION base pairs is unfathomable and more than a whole think tank of Genius level scientists could ever contain in 10 lifetimes. Now compare such a think tank to the knowledge held by any general group of common persons in 10 lifetimes. See the difference?
Now this is true, and what I want you to see is how when we look at statistics of the very same genomic portrait from a different prospective area of approach what a different picture we get. That’s number one.
Secondly, Evolutionary Biologists love to ignore or neglect the 2nd law of genetics when media-presenting their persuasions. The second law tells us (this is a demonstrable, observable, test confirmed reality) that recessive traits (such as ape-kind if they indeed were our ancestors) not only repeat themselves in future generations BUT on occasion actually revert and we see examples in the species (of plant or animal) when the qualities and characteristics or the recessive type TAKE OVER and re-present themselves.
So if this premise were true, then Ape-like Sapiens and Sapiens with distinctly Ape-like (or chimp like, or banana like) qualities would have been reappearing all through humanoid history. But alas this has never been the case.
Thirdly, the EBs never make the case for common genetic evolution form Chimp kind but from Ape kind (australopithicene) and the actual known differences are even much greater.
