Why are humans and monkeys so closely linked genetically?

All life forms, both simple life (plants) and complex life (man) have similar chemical ingredients because they all have two common denominators, life, and the same creator. However, different patterns and information (mapping) comprise the different life forms we have today. More complex life forms, such as man, have more complex patterns and information in their genetics. Simpler life forms have less patterns and information, which excludes them from the ability to think and reason. For example, if we compare a chocolate cake to a chocolate chip cookie, we would see that both have forms of chocolate in them as well as sugar and flour. But do they have the same amounts and do the final products taste the same? Of course not, they each have their own distinct identity but one will never transition into the other.

The idea that human beings and chimps have close to 100% similarity in their DNA is meaningless with regards to the Creation – Evolution debate. The figures quoted have varied between 97 - 99%, depending on just who is telling the story and what their personal biases are. Moreover, similarity is not an absolute indication of common ancestry but certainly points to a common designer.

When such figures are published there are usually a variety of claims in popular publications complimenting them. To be absolutely clear, DNA contains its information in the sequence of four chemical compounds known as nucleotides. The human DNA has at least 3,000,000,000 nucleotides in sequence. Neither the human nor the chimp DNA has been anywhere near fully sequenced so that a proper comparison can be made. The complexity behind this mapping is astonishing. To help you better understand the process, let’s imagines you take 8,000 of the worlds all-time greatest novels and compare them to each other for similarities, sentence by sentence.

The whole theory used in the publication of these figures itself could easily stand on its own inside of its parent theory of evolution. The researchers made an inference using a fairly crude technique called "DNA hybridization" where small parts of human DNA were split into single strands and allowed to re-form double strands with chimp DNA. However, there are various reasons why DNA does or does not hybridize, only one of which is degree of similarity (homology).

Within a cell we know that DNA contains much of the information necessary for the development of an organism. In other words, if two organisms look similar, we would expect there to be some similarity also in their DNA. The DNA of a cow and a horse, two mammals, should be more alike than the DNA of a cow and a bacterium. If it were not so, then the whole idea of DNA being the information carrier in living things would have to be questioned. Likewise, humans and apes have a lot of morphological similarities, so we would expect there would be similarities in their DNA. Of all the animals, chimps are most like humans, so we would expect that their DNA would be most like human DNA.

It may be a long time before such a comparison can be made because it will probably be the year 2005 before we have the full sequence of human DNA, and chimp DNA sequencing has a much lower priority. The good news is that other parameters are being used in the profession of molecular homology rather than this, somewhat, arbitrary process. We can easily conclude that much of the promotion of similarities has been yet another attempt at the evolutionary indoctrination on the scientifically illiterate.