A one percent difference in chimpanzee-human DNA is huge, given that mice and humans share 98% of their DNA

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 References 6 See Also 7 Acknowledgments

Claim

A one percent difference in chimpanzee-human DNA is huge, given that mice and humans share 98% of their DNA

Source

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfYip0ukUXE "Does the T-Rex taste like chicken?" by jezuzfreek777

Responses

1. The size of the difference is not dependent on the percentage size, but rather where it is located. The mouse-chimp similarities are generally located in non-coding DNA.
2. Calculations on rates of mutation accumulation show that it is very plausible that this difference accumulated over 6-7 million years.

Fallacies contained in this claim

• Argument from incredulity(I can't understand how, so it can not be)
• Exclusion (contrary evidence like the fact that the size of the difference is not dependent on the percentage size, but rather where it is located is ignored.)

References

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfYip0ukUXE "Does the T-Rex taste like chicken?" by jezuzfreek777

See Also

• Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?

Acknowledgments

• Fang 23
• 68.13.208.114