| aLkaLiNE said: Atheist -> agnostic here. I think it matters only as much as knowing your own personal history or the history of our species matters. Ymmv. But again the term God can be applied abstractly to many ideas. Is God the creator of this physics simulation we live in? Or is God merely the creator or predecessor to mankind as we know it. Or perhaps "He" is a metaphor for the infinite sound wave that is the universe.
In my opinion, the jump between man and our supposed closest relative, the chimpanzee is too large to be identified by a 1% difference in our genetic database. Something, someone, or perhaps a group intervened and played a role to what we were in the past and what we are today. |
If you consider that humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas, 1% seems about right to me. I've actually seen up to a 4% difference stated. I also read in a book that human males have a bit more identical DNA shared with male chimps than they do with human females. I have to admit I don't have the source handy, though.
As to the question in the OP... it really depends on which god we're talking about. If it's not one that causes people to suffer forever for not believing in him or his son then I'm probably okay with it.
