Human DNA literally gets into the samples. There’s a number of studies by secular researchers showing that many public DNA databases, from bacteria to fish, have significant levels of human contamination. It appeared the initial chimpanzee genome was contaminated with human DNA, which is a huge problem in genomics. Over half of the data sets were extremely similar to human, and the other half were extremely dissimilar to human. ![]() I sampled 25,000 sequences at random from each of the data sets and then began analyzing and comparing them to human. 2 It was the most comprehensive study I’ve done yet, and I looked at all 101 data sets that went into originally building the chimpanzee genome. But I finally got to the point where I published a paper in 2016. I used an algorithm developed by evolutionists that turned out to be a bad algorithm-so there’s been a lot of trial and error. I began working with the data myself, and over a number of years I refined my techniques. There’s a lot of DNA sequence data that is publicly available in databases. Tomkins: They have reacted to a lot of my research since that first paper. 1 This is way outside the realm of theoretical evolution.īrian: What should the evolutionary community say about this?ĭr. When I researched the data, I was coming up with DNA similarities between 81 to 86% when I included the dissimilar data. They were cherry-picking the areas of DNA between humans and chimps that were highly similar and throwing out areas, including areas that would not line up properly. Tomkins: The first thing I noticed when I began reading these articles was that researchers were throwing out a lot of data. Only a divine Creator could engineer something as complex as DNA.īrian: What did you find in the literature?ĭr. ![]() Their statistical models need that 98 to 99% similarity. They need a similarity that close to have humans and chimps evolve in the alleged three- to six-million-year timespan from a supposed human-chimpanzee common ancestor. The 98 to 99% claim is a theory-it’s speculative. Tomkins: It’s very important to theoretical evolutionists. I looked at the top six scientific publications that proposed a 98 to 99% DNA similarity between modern humans and modern chimpanzees.īrian: A 98 to 99% genetic similarity between modern humans and modern chimps-why is that important?ĭr. I went into it with an open mind and began reading all the literature on the subject-this started about eight years ago. I ran a genome center for over five years and investigated various plants and animals but never the human-chimpanzee comparison. Before working here, I’d not investigated that issue. They hear the claim that humans and chimps are 98 to 99% similar. Tomkins: My motivation started when I arrived here and was given the task of researching the human-chimpanzee similarity issue because people ask about this in churches. What motivates you to do this type of intense research?ĭr. Jeff Tomkins, who’s been a geneticist at ICR for over nine years. ![]() He recently spent time talking about his work with ICR Science Writer Brian Thomas.īrian: I’m joined by Dr. Tomkins is Director of Life Sciences at the Institute for Creation Research. Jeff Tomkins: Interview with a Geneticistĭr.
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