How will creationists react to the first human-chimp hybrid?

As for the neanthers' homology with sapiens, lets wait a little. They're currently at 63% of completely mapping their genome. But the real relative question will be centered on the gene expression in the brain. This is the quintessence of what differentiates sapiens and homonids. If gene expression in neanthers turns out within similar levels as sapiens, then there is a serious creationist case, in spite of other physiological aspects.However, this would not validate the underlying premise of a purist christian creationism, which is to deny the relationship between man and primates.But now, here's one problem I have, since this thread is about humans and chimps. I'm trying to understand how is it that according to Hiller (2005), the "extra" centromere found in chromosome 2 is related to chromosome 13 in the chimp. Shouldn't that centromere be the one from either chimp chrom 2a or 2b, since they constitutionally form chromosome 2 in man? How did chrom 13 in chimps get in this equation?

I wonder though, if the centromere in chrom 2 is from chimp chrom 13, it should theoritically leave us with a third inactive centromere in chrom 2, but we only found 2 (one active, one not). Moreover, the centromere from chimp chrom 13 was not part of the fusion event between 2b and 2a (formally 2p and 2q)? Therefore we have a strange situation. What happened there? I can't seem to find any scientific paper to explain this phenomenon.

That's my point exactly. Since chrom 2 in man is made of chroms 2a & 2b of apes , each having one centromere, then Hillier's claim about the second inactive centromere in chrom 2 (man) being related to chimp chrom 13, then he's introducing third centromere into the equation. But where is the explanation for it? I can't find a scientific paper that deals with this?

Hillier made this proposition in 2004. By then, chimp chromosomes 2b and 2a had been known as 2q and 2p respectively for over 30 years! Moreover, chimp chrom 13 had been known AS 13. So there is no confusion here. Pull up studies from the past 20 years on the sunject with chimp chromosome diagrams if you need confirmation. So Hillier was talking about chrom 13 specifically, not chrom 2b called 13.Now that we've clarified this, I assume you have not come accross any article dealing with this question. Or else you would have done so. But... if you do find one, please let me know. It would help in a research I am conducting on this subject.thank you

Now that answer was helpful. That's exactly what I wanted to clarify and you did so in very succinct, clear terms.Thank you.