German Memories in Asia - Exploring the Human Evolution

While we were having a chat by the seashore, twilight has turned into night and the German team who were playing volleyball has already left the beach.

We were discussing many things. The similarities of genes between the human and the chimpanzee became a hot topic in our discussion. When I was telling about genealogy, my other German friend couldn't grasp it, but Walker did quiet easily. I don't know why my other friend couldn't understand it. Perhaps it was because I was conversing in English that he failed to get a mental picture of the theory of evolution rather than any religious bias.

I had a long argument some time back with a friend of mine on the evolution of human - beings as opposed to any religious viewpoint of a god-created world. These predictions on evolutionary theory are based upon detailed evidence of anatomy, the scientific study of the body. This stands in stark contrast to creationists who take their religious text as their starting point and attempt to force-fit the data into their religious paradigm. Those who back such religious works thereby display a profound ignorance of basic scientific methods, which places a huge question mark over the reliability of their own published and presented works. Creationist works, and those who support such efforts, have no basis whatsoever in any scientific procedure and basic plain scientific reality.


I was telling Walker of the recent revelation in the CNN program that 95.5 percent of the chimpanzee and human genes are almost the same and the 75 of the dog's and man's genes also have the same similar features. He was eagerly listening to my conversation.

We don't have to trace the evolutionary path to know who we humans are in order to live peacefully on planet earth. At least if we could go some thousands years back, the realization of one's human origin will create no friction in the world among different ethnic groups who are fighting directly or indirectly as to who is superior to other.

An issue, which was highlighted in the CNN, struck me. There was a genealogist who was giving an interview on his special mission to track our immediate ancestral roots. All want to know their immediate ancestry, whether they belong beyond the their current identifications like American and Australians. Tracking our ancestry will be a million dollar business in the near future. They track using our genes to trace who are our forefathers were and from where they have actually come. His research findings indicate that all our ancestors have some common roots in Africa.