Grailhunter
Well-Known Member
But genetic studies have shown that apes have so many differences in their genetic code from humans that there is no way they could mutate into humans through genetic means.But genetic studies have shown that apes have so many differences in their genetic code from humans that there is no way they could mutate into humans through genetic means. Actually, the fruit fly has more similarities in its genetic code to humans, it it would be more likely that a fruit fly, with simple changes in genetics could transform into a human being, than apes could.
Actually evolution requires genetic information to be added to a species to be able to transform into a higher species, but genetics have proved that the adaptations within a species involves genetic information being lost, such as in Darwin's finches, where the short beak gene was lost when two long beak finches with just the long beak gene and no short beak gene, mated and produced a long beak finch.
So the only way genes can be added to a species is through human genetic engineering in a laboratory. But this is not evolution, because evolution requires time and chance, not design. So far, no scientist through genetic engineering has been able to add human genes to an ape to transform it into anything like a humanoid. I guess if they tried they would probably get something like Frankenstein's monster, or some other horribly deformed creature that one can view in a science fiction horror movie.
It goes to show you that a person can work real hard to live a lie.
Ever since researchers sequenced the chimp genome in 2005, they have known that humans share about 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees, making them our closest living relatives.