[TheThirdRuffian]

I have no interest in the evolve/created debate.

But there are creatures that are extremely old (roaches, snails, whatever) from the earliest of fossil records that exists today.

Large portions of the genome of these “clearly original” creatures is similar to current day human DNA.

Heck, there is “junk” DNA in corn and other plants that tracks human DNA just fine.

So, regardless of the “evolve” or “create” camp, we’re as native as the rest of the stuff on this planet.

[Monkey Face]

I don’t do “evolve or create” either...just trying to get a fix on views.

(The “argument” is like the chicken and the egg...never ending.)

[Mack the knife]

Large portions of the genome of these “clearly original” creatures is similar to current day human DNA.

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In the book “The Making of the Fittest”, an astounding claim is made: all living things, from the scum living in boiling water of Yellowstone, to plants, to animals, to humans ... share about 500 “immortal” genes in their DNA (primarily used for building cell walls, transcribing DNA to RNA, etc).

If true, the implications are mind boggling.