it's the only explanation pt 2 - in God's image

My biochem teacher, Dr. Deis likes to believe that we evolved from monkeys. He also likes to proliferate this belief. Some of my pathophysiology teachers apparently agree with him. The argument goes that the similarities in our biological and chemical make-up must  mean that we share some common ancestor. This conclusion is drawn from the fact that our genome is remarkably similar to that of monkeys. I don't have the exact numbers, but the greatest possible match is in excess of 98%, but there are also studies that say we really aren't that similar. But let's just assume that the people who say that there is a mere 2% difference between being a human and a monkey are right. 2% seems like such an insignificant deviation, but let's put this in perspective. The human genome consists of at least 65,000 genes, each of which is composed of 1,000 base pairs. This means at least 65,000,000 base pairs. A 2% difference amounts to 1,300,000 base pairs. Sure, in comparison to the entire genome, that's small. And my main argument isn't going to be mathematical or scientific, really. I'm just throwing it out there that a 2% difference can actually be a pretty big difference.

My main point is actually quite simple and in no way proves one side or disproves the other. My professors and many others seem to think that similarities must mean that LUCA (i.e. Last Universal Common Ancestor) existed somewhere in the distant future. But do mere similarities really necessitate such a conclusion? Take the evolutionarily conserved innate immune system, for example. A mollusk and a human exhibit almost identical responses to pathogens. But it seems a bit of a stretch to believe that people were once oysters. Isn't it equally, if not more, reasonable to conclude that the immune system has been "conserved" across all species simply because it works? In other words, if a design is fully functional, what is the point in trying to change it? I'm not going into detail because class is starting soon, but I think you can get my gist. There is a commonality between all creation much like there is commonality between all buildings designed by the same architect, or all masterpieces drawn by the same artist. This doesn't prove that there was an Intelligent Designer, but nothing proves that we were a few thousand generations short of being in a zoo.

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."-Genesis 1:27