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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