Our ape ancestor was diploid. We're diploid. You can change the organization of the genes by fusing or cleaving chromosomes, but the amount of genes hasn't changed between our ape ancestor and us now.
I guess you all believe in miracles also. Ape chromozomes fuse together un-naturally so as to produce a human offspring, allegedly? So mom and pop ape have a chromozone accident/miracle and suddenly raise the first human? Otherwise don't you have just as big a problem to explain if the process took a long period of change over time? I guess what I'm asking is how can you have anything produced from partially fused chromozomes while the transition is allegedly going on?
[This message has been edited by buzsaw, 04-09-2004]