The nails in the coffin of macro-evolutionary theory just keep getting pounded. There may be more nails in the coffin than wood! The latest nail may be a new study of human genes revealing that human beings are far more genetically diverse from one another – and from animals, than previously thought. Here’s the latest tidbit from the U.K.’s, The Independent:

The findings mean that instead of humanity being 99.9 per cent identical, as previously believed, we are at least 10 times more different between one another than once thought – which could explain why some people are prone to serious diseases.The studies published today have found that instead of having just two copies of each gene – one from each parent – people can carry many copies, but just how many can vary between one person and the next.The studies suggest variations in the number of copies of genes is normal and healthy. But the scientists also believe many diseases may be triggered by an abnormal loss or gain in the copies of some key genes.

Another implication of the finding is that we are more different to our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, than previously assumed from earlier studies. Instead of being 99 per cent similar, we are more likely to be about 96 per cent similar.

Keep in mind that the 96 percent figure is speculation; an actual comparison based upon the new research has not been done. Suffice it to say that if human beings are 10 times more genetically diverse than previously thought, why would we be any less diverse from Bonzo?

Yes, it’s early to make conclusions of the data based upon a short quip in a science article, but Holy Cow (there’s not such thing), the more we discover the more we learn about the impossibility of macro-evolution.

Maybe macro-evolution doesn’t need a coffin. We can’t really bury what never existed in the first place.