Are humans special or are we nothing more the mere rabbits

[ShoutGrace]

Did anyone mention the similarity of DNA between a CHimp and a human? I beleive it to be about 98%

So much for a massive difference...

Nobody may have mentioned it specifically, but it has been implied. It is a fact that humans and chimpanzees share 98% of their DNA. What I find interesting is how we share so much DNA, and yet are so tremendously (massively), definitively different.

Humans also share 75% of our DNA with dogs (some humans more than others) and 33% of our DNA with daffodils. Is there more than a 70% difference between daffodils and human beings?

How much DNA is in a thought? In a (theoretical) soul?

DNA is one attribute by which to measure an organism. There are many others, and by those presented so far, it is clear that human beings are indeed “special” and unique when compared to the rest of life on this planet.

[Turk]

You answered it before me ShoutGrace. We also share %75 DNA similarity with a kind of worm, so we are just %25 different than a worm? In fact even one change at DNA and Protein structure creates humongous differences. So %75, %98 or even %99 similarity doesn't proves anything. But i think this is off topic. Last three messages (including mine) should transfer to another topic.

[cuppajoe_9]

You answered it before me ShoutGrace. We also share %75 DNA similarity with a kind of worm, so we are just %25 different than a worm?

It's worth bearing in mind that there are large sectors of DNA that don't actually code for any proteins. Of the 75% we share with a worm, large sectors are probably useless. "Percent difference" isn't really a concept that can be used to compare two objects unless both of them are numbers.

But i think this is off topic.

Naw, the topic has to do with why human beings are different from other animals. We're right on it.

[Scorpio]

look at the impact of man on the environment and look at the impact of animals on the environment then ask yourself who really understands life
man is superior only in his arrogance towards other animals

[miss tenderness]

not to mention, humans have the same amount of hair as a chimp... frightening thought really

Why dear?!as if you're going to wake up one morning and find yourself transformed to a chimp! I'm telling you" This fact wont change the other fact,which is we are not rabbit or chimps ".

[Turk]

DNA percents doesn't prove anything since only %0,1 diference is enough to be completely different kind. Especially saying "we have same amount of hair as a chimp" as a prove of this subject is even funny.

[Dimitra]

DNA percents doesn't prove anything since only %0,1 diference is enough to be completely different kind. Especially saying "we have same amount of hair as a chimp" as a prove of this subject is even funny.

I disagree.It proves how close relatives we are with those species..in such a degree that in fact many scientists now want to include in the homo family,the bonobo and the trogoglydes chimp ..or alter our whole family name as to fit the lates discoveries better..but they don't because it woudl cause such great problems with taxinomy and zoology.Our species with the one of the bonobo chimp have separated only 500000 years before..now in such a small time has something so radical and magnificent happen that will separate us with the rest of the animal kingdom and put us in a league of our own??

[Turk]

Are they relative too?

[Scheherazade]

Are they relative too?

The first one looks rather like my maternal uncle, come to think of it!

[Turk]

Well i also think they are rleative to each other too, look people, they both green.

[ShoutGrace]

now in such a small time has something so radical and magnificent happen that will separate us with the rest of the animal kingdom and put us in a league of our own??

The above is rather lacking clarity, but if it is indeed a question, then the answer is simply 'yes.'

[Virgil]

Virgil; i'm not sure about Christianity, because i didn't research about this question in Christianity, but in İslam human is supreme than angels, because according to İslam God give us ability to choose, free will. But angels doesn't have free will that's why he ordered angels to prostrate in front of human and show him respect you know the last part i think. Satan rejected this because of his arrogance (though some İslamic scholars have different thoughts about Satan's manner, according to them Satan was so faithful and that's why didn't want to pray prostrate to man, and that was a "blind" faith, that make him forget obeying orders of God is true faith. An interesting claim. Although this kind of faith also includes arrogance, i think those scholars misses this weak part of their argument).

Oh that's interesting. I didn't realize there was that difference between Christianity and Islam on that.

[Virgil]

The first one looks rather like my maternal uncle, come to think of it!

That was funny!

[miss tenderness]

Oh that's interesting. I didn't realize there was that difference between Christianity and Islam on that.

well, actually ,as a start, angels are better than Humans. It's the 2nd thing a Muslim have(must)believe in after the 1st one>>Allah,swt. That tells about their importance in Islam. I dearly love Gebrail, the most grand angel who was sent to Prophet Mohammad with the meesage of Islam,I love thre rest too,whether they are named to us or not. Great respect is paid to him ,Gebrial,and other angels in the holy Quran. However,in the day of Judgement, the faithful person who never makes sins(or more accurately,commit but regret and ask 4 forgivness),is better,coz he is human and was able to reach a high level . Angels can't but obey,they have no choice. We,humans,have choice and such a person choose not to go astray

[Turk]

Where did you read it m.tenderness? A human is always supreme than an angel, unless he betray his creation. So a human is supreme than angel in beginning. Actually even asking this question is somewhat silly by itself; because angels are like machines. They have no free will. Remember who compared himself to man; Satan. And i don't love any angels, how can you love an angel? It doesn't have any meaning.