If Darwin is correct, and humans do share a common ancestor with chimps, the evidence would be in the DNA. Of this, there can be no doubt. It really does not matter what humanoid fossils are found. The pictures and drawings of apes and humans are all cute and persuasive, but where the rubber meets the road is in the DNA. It is here where evolution takes place. It is here where the case is made, or breaks.
A simple search on the internet shows that human and chimp DNA is about 98.8% identical. This is really irrefutable evidence that Darwin was right. Man did descend from apes. Darwin was right; the Bible is wrong. Delete
A few years ago, while I was preparing a series of lessons on Genesis, I was forced to confront this thorny problem. All the other supposed evidence for Darwinism was easily refuted. The humanoid fossils were either human or chimp. The vestigial organs all had a purpose. Natural selection could only select what was there. Mutations were almost always detrimental or fatal. It was not very difficult until I came to the DNA.
I was forced to concede that the DNA evidence made it seem like we descended from apes. But with three billion base pairs of DNA, that still left 36 million differences that had to be accounted for. I reasoned that 36 million differences were enough to refute Darwinism. I didn’t like my answer, but it was the best I could muster.
I did a little digging, just to make sure humans really did share 99.8 of their DNA with chimps. I remembered going to college in 1980 and being told that recapitulation was true based on drawings by a man named Haeckel. He drew them in the 1800s, and they were pure fantasy. Yet they were in my college textbook 80 years after they were exposed as fraudulent.
There was also a famous human ancestor called Nebraska Man. He was hailed as the missing link between humans and apes. Turns out he was constructed out of a single pig tooth. Even though this fraud was exposed in the 1930s, it was still taught as fact in my university 50 years later. As unbelievable as it may sound, scientists say with a straight face that this was not a deliberate hoax; it was an honest mistake any scientist could make.
But the greatest fraud of the century was Piltdown Man, “discovered” in 1912. This “missing link” was composed of an orangutan jaw and a human skull. They could not get them to fit together, so they did a little filing here and a little cutting there. Add some glue, and you have indisputable scientific evidence for human evolution. Many articles and papers were written citing Piltdown Man. The cast of this fossil was examined and studied for 43 years, but the actual fossil was kept hidden. When it was finally examined, it was an obvious fraud, yet still considered fact in my college textbook 27 years later.
Fortunately, things have gotten better since then. We are told that science is self-correcting, and that could never happen today. No scientist worth his salt would ever use fake evidence to promote a foregone conclusion. Or would they?
I decided to see how others answered this thorny issue and landed at Genesis Apologetics. I was shocked at what I learned.
It is a lie.
For starters, the chimp genome is 4.3% larger than the human genome. This makes the 98.8% number impossible. But what was really fraudulent is that only the similar parts of the genome were included; the rest was discarded. The secular YouTube channel “Minute Earth” puts it this way:
When researchers sat down to compare the chimp and human genomes, those single-letter differences were easy to tally. But the big mismatched sections weren’t. For example, if a genetic paragraph—thousands of letters long—appears twice in a human scroll, but only once in its chimp counterpart, should the second copy count as thousands of changes, or just one? And what about identical paragraphs that appear in both genomes, but in different places, or in reverse order, or broken up into pieces? Rather than monkey around with these difficult questions, the researchers simply excluded all the large mismatched sections–a whopping 1.3 billion letters of DNA—and performed a letter-by-letter comparison on the remaining 2.4 billion, which turned out to be 98.77% identical. So, yes, we share 99% of our DNA with chimps—if we ignore 18 percent of their genome and 25 percent of ours.
Let’s crunch the numbers. If the scientists looked at 2.4 billion letters of the DNA, but left out 1.3 billion, that means they looked at only 66% of the DNA, and found about 99% similarity. This would result in 65% identical DNA.
The remaining 34% was too mismatched to analyze, but let’s say that 50% of this was identical. That would add 17% to the 65% of what they analyzed, giving us a total of 82% absolutely identical DNA.
Just to see if this number was in the ballpark, I looked at an article by Casey Luskin at the website Science and Culture Today. In his May 2025 article, titled “New Research overturns claim that humans and apes differ by 1% DNA,” he references an April 2025 study in Nature titled “Complete sequencing of ape genome.”
Dr. Luskin states:
At least 12.5 percent and possibly up to 13.3 percent of the chimp and human genomes represent a “gap difference” between the two genomes. That means there’s a “gap” in one genome compared to the other, often where they are so different, they cannot even be aligned.
There are also significant alignable sections of the two genomes that show “short nucleotide variations” which differ by only about 1.5 percent. We can add this difference to the “gap difference” and calculate a 14 percent to 14.9 percent total difference between human and chimp genomes. This means that the actual difference between human and chimp DNA is 14 times greater than the often-quoted 1 percent statistic.
Ever since Haeckel’s imagined embryos in 1868, Darwinists have had indisputable scientific evidence that their theory was true. In every case, this supposed evidence has been fraudulent.
The DNA fraud is the final one, for without it, Darwinian evolution cannot survive. The fraudulent DNA comparison between man and apes was indisputable evidence that man had descended from primates. It could not be refuted.
But the accurate 80 – 90% identical DNA between man and apes is also indisputable. It clearly shows that Darwinian evolution is false. It is the fatal blow, the final nail in Darwin’s coffin. Darwin is dead.
But the fact that he is dead is not going to stop his faithful followers from parading his corpse throughout the public streets and byways. These people are true believers, and something as insignificant as facts has never stopped them. But look a little closer. Darwin is not moving. His eyes are not open. There is no breath in his lungs. If you draw near, you will smell the stench of death and see the rotting flesh falling off his body.
Darwin is dead. Science has killed him.