To show how similar in genetic mapping animals are to humans, let me drop a copy of the percentages first:
- Genome-wide variation from one
human being to another can be up to 0.5% (99.5% similarity)
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Chimpanzees are 96% to 98% similar to humans, depending on how it is calculated.
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Cats have 90% of homologous genes with humans, 82% with dogs, 80% with cows, 79% with chimpanzees, 69% with rats and 67% with mice.
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Cows (
Bos taurus) are 80% genetically similar to humans (
source)
- 75% of
mouse genes have equivalents in humans (
source), 90% of the mouse genome could be lined up with a region on the human genome (
source) 99% of mouse genes turn out to have analogues in humans (
source)
- The
fruit fly (
Drosophila) shares about 60% of its DNA with humans
- About 60% of
chicken genes correspond to a similar human gene.
Naturally, we share the compounds with these animals that our DNA is made up of. A CARBON in my DNA will be the same CARBON in the rat's DNA. But how does that make me relative of the RAT? I can say we have the same origins but that is misleading because I am using the basis of Chemical code that are similar to 75% to claim I am of mice. Really? So, it is our interpretation of data that makes us an atheist or theist. I say great! All these coded chemicals we call DNA have the same basis and are similar but there is no relation between me and chicken, mice or an Ape. The difference in our percentage is what makes unique and that was intentional coding By God. To create something new out of what already exited among creatures. That is acceptable to a Muslim.
The percentage difference is what gives an animal what it has in characteristics and makes it different from other animals entirely. This variation can in no way happen on its own. It is by design. It is By God.
Look at human to human differences, in between humans, there is .5% difference. This is what gives each of us personality and looks that are different even among siblings. Goes to show the percentage difference between humans as small as it is, must be by design simply to differentiate humans even though they are of the same Origin.
The crux of the matter is, mentioning percentage of similarities between man and ape does not make a human an Ape. An ape walks on two does not make the Ape the grandfather of man. Each one of us beings is created as they are by God, and from the same source of chemicals.
It is how Allah constructed them and coupled them together that gave each animal their characteristic. Nothing complex about that from a muslim perspective. You say it happened by chance and the same Origin, I say it can not happen by chance and yes the same Origin as chemicals found on the periodic table but coded as such to give each animal its distinct character. Giving these animals one original Animal and they continued to evolve and gave birth to intermediary species is unproven, just feel good stories to eliminate God in the chain of the process. Plus there were no such intermideiary animals found. And nothing in recent recorded history showed speciation. No recorded evolution(Macro).
I need to catch the train Saxib. I didn't have time to refine my statements plus I am Somali and English is my second language. It zapped the energy out of me already due to concentration.
Drink in Moderation kkkkkkk.