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Essay:Predictions of RTB model
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To appear scientific, the old-Earth creationist Hugh Ross has made a few predictions, a few years back. [1] A few of these predictions have failed. These are :
37. Continuing DNA analysis increasingly will establish that humans could not have naturally descended from previously existing hominids or primates.
Answer : The claim is that DNA analysis would demonstrate that the human genome is far too different from primates, so they could not connected. A more than 90% similarity in the genome is not permissible under the RTB model. In 2005, when the complete human and chimpanzee genomes were compared, they were found to be 98.77% similar, when including indels (insertion and deletion mutations). [2] Another 2005 paper analyzed the protein-coding regions (that is non-Junk DNA), and found MORE THAN 99.4% similarity. This is what evolutionary theory predicts. Mutations in junk DNA are neutral and hence accumulate rapidly. On the other hand, mutations in protein-coding segments are often deleterious and eliminated by selection.
38. Research increasingly will establish that the entire human race is descended from one man and one woman living in one location not far from the juncture of Africa, Asia, and Europe a few or several tens of thousands of years ago.
Response : The evidence for human-chimp common ancestry rules this out. Otherwise, the hundreds of fossils of human evolution make no sense if this is true. Human and human-like fossils are found over the last millions of years. [3] Why would God create species in an apparently evolutionary sequence.