RSF: Now the Gorilla Genome Doesn't Fit
*DNA Doesn't Lie, and that includes Gorilla DNA: This program will be the first in a new annual tradition: List of Genomes that Just Don't Fit! For the genomes march on at Real Science Friday. Now, it turns out that 15 percent of the gorilla genome is closer to humans than to chimps! Bob Enyart and RSF co-host Fred Williams point out that for many decades Darwinists have claimed that humans are closest to chimpanzees. So this throws yet another monkey wrench into the theory of evolution. The guys also review the enormous and unpredicted difference between the human Y chromosome and the chimp Y, and the human genome generally with the published comparisons of the sponge genome, a worm, and the kangaroo genome!* Gorilla Ears, Octopus Eyes, and the Platypus: By Darwinian theory, hundreds of millions of the gorilla's nucleotides (genetic letters) should not be ordered more closely to the human genome than to the chimpanzee genome. Why not, because allegedly, as repeated ten thousand times, including in Nature in 2011, "chimpanzees [are] the closest living relatives of Homo sapiens." So, watch for the bait and switch method whereby as continued genetic research undermines the Darwinian prediction, we'll hear that gorilla ears, etc., are more human than chimp-like, and also that the orangutans, the gorillas, and chimpanzees, are all are closest living relatives! These diversions help to maintain the evolutionary illusion even in the face of such a strongly falsified evolutionary prediction.read more
