Quote Originally Posted by ermitonto
It's also kind of weird, from a Creationist viewpoint, that God also decided to create some animals almost, but not quite, in his own image, like the chimpanzee which shares 98.5% of its DNA with humans.
Yes, and that the genetic code is universal. That to me, proves evolution, that we all descended from the same organism because everything living has DNA, and each species uses the same nucleotide base sequences to make the exact same protein. For example, the DNA sequence "AAA" codes for the amino acid phenyalanine in shrimp, humans, bacteria, dandelions, bats, actually in every organism that we know of. other base sequences work the same way, AUU will code for a protein XYZ in all organisms. UUU will code for another amino acid in all organisms. The question is how much of a protein is produced and how many genes are involved, which determines the differences between species. If we all werent related at all, each species would probably have a different way of constructing proteins.