On Chromosome Two and the Creation of Our Species: A Response to the Discovery Institute's Feedback
Andrew Jones of the Discovery Institute has addressed my video, Chromosome 2. Part I. Evidence for an Evolutionary Creation , in a way that I think warrants a response. I appreciate the points that he raises; they are insightful and fair. In the video, I lay out two hypotheses to explain the finding that the genes present on two different chromosomes in great apes are present on one single chromosome in humans. Hypothesis 1 is that God purposely assembled the genes into a single chromosome package when he created our species in an instant (relatively speaking) and from scratch. Hypothesis 2 is that God created our species through the evolutionary process from an ape ancestral species that had two smaller chromosomes and that God did so over a period of several million years. At some point in our evolutionary heritage those two chromosomes fused end-to-end to become one larger chromosome. Andrew suggests that I should have considered a third