[In response to the question "Atheists: Why aren't mice considered our closer evolutionary ancestor than chimps? Since we share more DNA?"]

These percentages demonstrate that percent of shared DNA is not an indicator of biological ancestry. Like all homologies among species, it is simply a measure of common design elements.

Darwinists like to claim that we share a common primate ancestor (they will deny that it is a chimp) because they gain credence from the design similarities of human and primate. However, that is not the real claim of Darwinism.

What Darwinism actually claims is the ascent of humans from the goo to you via the zoo. A pool of chemicals magically morphed into bacteria directed by inordinately complex DNA information, and the bacteria magically morphed into a succession of higher species until humans developed.

That's the atheist creation myth--a just-so story that fits their theology. Unfortunately, it does not account for the impossibility of the leap from inanimate matter to information-directed life, or of the sudden appearance of all or most phyla in the Cambrian explosion without ancestral species in the lower strata.

Cheers,
Bruce