From Walter Myers III at ENST:
While much of the DNA code may be the same, the parts that are not the same have significant differences. The programs I described above, such as Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat, have different purposes, yet they all depend on the same OS that consists of tens of millions of lines of code. To be specific, let’s say you are using an iPhone with iOS 11 (the Apple mobile OS) installed. iOS is estimated to take up about 4 GB of space on your iPhone. Facebook takes up about 297 MB. Snapchat is about 137 MB. Instagram is about 85 MB. Respectively, that’s 7.4 percent, 3.4 percent, and 2.1 percent of the size of iOS. Now would anyone say that Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat are pretty much the same thing since they are each well over 90 percent the same? Of course not. It’s not so different with humans and chimps. In the case of these programs, the vast majority of their total code base is shared, yet each is a distinct creative expression that leverages a shared base of code. In the case of humans and chimps, one would expect a designer to use shared code where functions are the same, and different (new) code where functions are different. When we examine computer programs, which are the inventions of human minds, why would they not reflect the mind of the designer that wrote the code to produce humans, chimps, and every other biological organism? More.
How many people would accept the current, crazy human-chimp similarity claims if anything important to them were at stake? How about this: You are counseling a difficult, disturbed teen and she thinks she can advance an animal rights cause by getting pregnant by a chimpanzee? Of course, her actions would never result in a live birth but what would you say to her?
See also: Are IQ tests “unfair” to apes? (No. They were designed for humans and apes are not humans.)
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Are apes entering the Stone Age?
An excellent article. I was a software developer/systems engineer for close to 40 years and expended much sweat, blood and tears over those decades working to chase down those many bugs that “killed” the prospects of a robust and fully functional system.
I started chasing bugs in 1970, and had I been a whole lot smarter, or had instead majored in Evolutionary Biology, I could have just quite trying and let “deep time” solve these many problems.
Of course a new and different bug (problem) would have surfaced — having been fired for the cause of non-production, how was I to feed myself and my family? How was I to pay the rent?
Seriously, how many of us have, throughout life, witnessed so many of the things around us, and within us, decay and disintegrate over time? Old cars, houses, sidewalks, muscles, lungs, mountains, trees …
Can someone please point out to me something, either man made or natural, that when left alone to the constantly changing world around us, has improved over time.
Time — even “deep time” is a measure of destructiveness, and not an agent of creation.
I think you would find that even excluding the operating system that Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat have substantial amounts of similar or identical code.
A few notes: Dr. Paul Giem is up to part 8 in his series reviewing John Sanford’s new book “Contested Bones”:
Besides the fossils themselves failing to support the supposed gradual evolution of man from some apelike creature, the genetic evidence itself, although often touted by Darwinists as undeniable proof that man evolved from some apelike creature, fails to support the claim that man evolved from some apelike creature.
In establishing this fact there are a few points that need to be made.
1. The DNA similarity is not nearly as close to 99% as Darwinists have falsely portrayed it to be.
2. Even if DNA were as similar as Darwinists have falsely portrayed it to be, the basic ‘form’ that any organism may take is not reducible to DNA, (nor is the basic ‘form’ reducible to any other material particulars in molecular biology, (proteins, RNAs, etc.. etc.. ,,), that Darwinists may wish to invoke. That is to say, ‘you can mutate DNA til the cows come home’ and you will still not achieve a fundamental change in the basic form of an organism. And since the basic ‘form’ of an organism is forever beyond the explanatory power of Darwinian mechanisms, then any belief that Darwinism explains the ‘transformation of forms’ for all of life is purely a pipe dream that has no experimental basis in reality.
3. To further drive this point home, Dolphins and Kangaroos, although being very different morphologically from humans, are found to have very similar DNA sequences.
4. Where differences are greatest between chimps and humans are in alternative splicing patterns. In fact ., due to alternative slicing, “Alternatively spliced isoforms,,, appear to behave as if encoded by distinct genes rather than as minor variants of each other.,,,” and “As many as 100,000 distinct isoform transcripts could be produced from the 20,000 human protein-coding genes (Pan et al., 2008), collectively leading to perhaps over a million distinct polypeptides obtained by post-translational modification of products of all possible transcript isoforms,,”
5. Although the behavioral differences between man and apes are far greater than many Darwinists are willing to concede, the one difference that most dramatically separates man from apes, i.e. our ability to speak, is the one unique attribute that leading Darwinists themselves admit that they have no clue how it could have possibly evolved, and is also the one attribute that most distinctly indicates that we are indeed ‘made in the image of God’.
Although the purported evidence for human evolution is far weaker and illusory than most people realize, it is interesting to note that leading Darwinists themselves admit that they have no clue how evolution could have produced the particular trait of language in humans.
Tom Wolfe was so taken aback by this confession by leading Darwinists that he wrote a book entitled ‘Kingdom of Speech’ on the subject. The following quote provides an overview of Tom Wolfe’s main argument in his book:
In other words, although humans are fairly defenseless creatures in the wild compared to other creatures, such as lions, bears, and sharks, etc.., nonetheless, humans have, completely contrary to Darwinian ‘survival of the fittest’ thinking, managed to become masters of the planet, not by brute force, but simply by our unique ability to communicate information and, more specifically, infuse information into material substrates,,
What is more interesting still, besides the fact that humans have a unique ability to understand and create information and have become ‘masters of the planet’ through the ‘top-down’ infusion of information into material substrates, is the fact that, due to advances in science, both the universe and life itself are now found to be ‘information theoretic’ in their foundational basis.
Renowned physicist John Wheeler stated “in short all matter and all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe”.
In the following article, Anton Zeilinger, a leading expert in quantum mechanics, stated that ‘it may very well be said that information is the irreducible kernel from which everything else flows.’
In the following video at the 48:24 mark, Anton Zeilinger states that “It is operationally impossible to separate Reality and Information” and he goes on to note, at the 49:45 mark, the Theological significance of “In the Beginning was the Word” John 1:1
Vlatko Vedral, who is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, and who is also a recognized leader in the field of quantum mechanics, states, The most fundamental definition of reality is not matter or energy, but information–
Moreover, besides being foundational to physical reality, information, as Intelligent Design advocates have been pointing out to Darwinists for years, is also foundational to biological life. Here are a few references to get that point across:
It is hard to imagine a more convincing scientific proof that we are made ‘in the image of God’ ,,, than finding both the universe, and life itself, are both ‘information theoretic’ in their foundational basis, and that we, of all the creatures on earth, uniquely possess an ability to understand and create information, and, moreover, have come to ‘master the planet’ precisely because of our unique ability infuse information into material substrates.
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Perhaps a more convincing evidence that we are made in the image of God and that our lives have meaning and purpose could be if God Himself became a man, defeated death on a cross, and then rose from the dead to prove that He was indeed God.
But who has ever heard of such a thing as that?
If we treat the protein coding sections as a “dispatch”; basically a token resolution function, usually based on a switch statement, calculated goto, or array of function pointers; these are natural functional bottlenecks in a codebase, which will naturally reduce to the same general shape as other codebases with even just vaguely similar functionality operating in the same environment.
Most of the functional complexity will be resting on either side of these dispatches; behind, in the token sequence generation (in terms of biology, what’s probably largely hiding in what has been foolishly referred to as “junk DNA”); and in front, in the emergent results of the token resolution (the resultant organism).
You don’t even need a different dispatch for practically infinite differences in the emergent result in general software terms; it can all lie within the sequence generation; as programming language compilers can be boiled down to dispatches, and we should all know how different the emergent functionalities of the products of such can be.