PaulB007 wrote:I appreciate those links, I looked at them and they do seem to have some of the things I was questioning in them that I was thinking in my head. The whole chimpanzee evolution thing has been my one and only problem believing in God, the other issues have never been of much concern
It's really not an issue... Just remember when they quote this 3% number they're talking "genetic information" or just DNA. Not the coding part of the DNA, the gene. So, I've adjusted it for genes when others have done this, they've found the number closer to 15% which is not at all surprising considering our physical similarities.
Base Pairs per Human Genome
There are approximately 3 billion base pairs in the human genome.
3 billion = 3 x 109
The average gene has 1,350 base pairs.
The human genome has 30,000 — 40,000 genes (from the Genome Project)
3% = 3 x 10-2
(3 x 10-2) x (3 x 109) = 9 x 107 or 90 million base pairs.
Number of base pairs per gene ≈ 1.4 x 103
Number of genes in human genome ≈ 4.0 x 104
(1.4 x 103) x (4.0 x 104) = 5.6 x 107
Remember that 9 x 107 base pairs is our 3% difference, so…
9 x 107 ÷ 5.6 x 107 = 1.6
Therefore, 1.6 copies of the entire human genome could fit in the 3% difference.