Humans and Chimpanzees are related.

Ok after information is copied in the genome it is subjected to mutation like the rest of the genome, This is what eventually turns this into new information through natural selection, And since its being done with a copy of pre-existing genes it doesn't have to randomly mutate new start and stop codons to make new genes, And just because something changes, That doesn't mean the information is lost, Rather it means the information has changed, And if does so in a way that complicates the organisms survival it will eventually get weeded out of the gene pool. Secondly the fossil record goes WAY beyond the human species and great ape time scale, And it shows a clear pattern, The further back in time you go the simpler and less diversified organisms become, This is consistent with everything being related to one another at some point in the past, Secondly we have identified 424 protein coding genes that are present in EVERY LIVING THING alive today from bacteria to humans "not including viroids and virus's" the chance of these specific genes found in every last species of life on this planet to have developed individually from one another is laughably improbable, But it all makes sense if all life that exists today shares a lineage back to one specific cell that lived 3. 8 billion years ago, What I need you to understand is that LUCA was not the only cell around, Its just the only cell who's linage has survived. We know life existed before LUCA because it was still a very complex cellier organism subjected to genetics and had things like protein synthesis and metabolism, Also 424 protein coding genes expressed on a DNA molecule being read by protein machinery in a phospholipid membrane with transport machinery wouldn't just come from anywhere, There must have been a point where things like DNA and Protein machinery didn't exist and genes that actually code proteins didn't exist either, For example the DNA and Protein paradox, DNA requires proteins for both transporting information and replicating itself, While proteins require DNA in order to by synthesized in the first place, This is why there is a well based conseses among researchers that RNA actually came before DNA and Proteins because it can act as both an instruction carrier and a catalyst for chemical reactions similar to proteins, But more importantly because RNA can replicate itself through a process called "Template dependent replication" through cycles of heating and cooling, Also RNA has been created in simulated prebiotic earth conditions in laboratory's, Look up "RNA world hypothesis" "PNA world hypothesis" "Protocells" the amount of stuff on this will blow your mind. Here is a list of known and observed speciation events. http://www. Talkorigins. Org/faqs/faq-speciation. Html Because the changes in multicellier organisms are so small and take long periods of time to become noticeable it is assumed that every organism gives birth to the same organism, Which is true, Until you consider that speciation happens when populations divide from each other and that they are still giving birth to the same species while being subjected to mutation and natural selection, And as I have mentioned before every generation is transitional because every generation has new mutations. There is no assumptions in this and there is no what ifs in this, The evidence points to a situation which is not achievable through secular means, Let alone that we have observed this happening multiple times. Although I want to stress that the original purpose of this debate was to discuss whether or not humans and chimpanzees are related, But yet this debate has swung into the direction of abiogenesis and me having to re-explain genetics.