We Share Many Genes with Lettuce, but that Doesn't Make Us Part Salad

It is fashionable these days to denigrate human beings as mere apes. But is that notion supported by science? No.

Over at First Things, I point out some of the errors, get into some of the scientific retorts to the we-are-apes argument made by evolutionary scientists, and illuminate the actual agenda of those seeking to convince us to think of ourselves as mere chimps or gorillas.

For example, we are often told there is only a 2 percent genetic difference between us and chimps. From "You Are...