WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Are Humans and Chimpanzees Basically the Same? Or Is That Zombie Science?

You’ve probably heard at one time or another the claim that we human beings share 98-99 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, so we are basically the same. But the reality is that we humans also share about 60 percent of our DNA with bananas and nobody argues we are a lot like bananas.

The fact is the claim that humans and chimps share 99 percent of our DNA is an example of “Zombie Science,” that is, seemingly science-based claims that sound like they are accurate, but which are actually false. They are Zombies because people keep repeating them over and over despite the facts that prove otherwise.

Check out the latest edition of the Colson Center’s “What Would You Say?” video series to get the straight scoop about this false claim that just won’t die, no matter how many times it is shot down by genuine scientific inquiry and research:

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Is Congress a Hostile Mission Field?

You bet it is if you are talking about the 20,000 or so mostly young men and women who work as congressional aides for senators, representatives, congressional committees and congressional agencies. They do the daily work that makes Congress function, and that makes them one of the strongest but least visible influences actively shaping America’s laws.

Why are they a hostile mission field for a ministry like HillFaith that seeks to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Being deeply involved in politics, often from a young age, the typical Hill aide is also highly educated and intensely engaged on social media and discussions elsewhere on major issues facing America. Members of Congress depend upon them for trusted advice before voting in Congress.

The hostility among many of them results from their having graduated from Ivy League and other elite private schools where they imbibed many of the highly critical assumptions about religious faith in general and Christianity in particular, with a result they view the world from what amounts to an atheistic or agnostic perspective, or they consider themselves “spiritual” but with no need for the Gospel. They seek to impose the Woke agenda on all Americans whether or not they want it.

Does that kind of culture sound familiar? It should because it recalls the ancient world that confronted Paul and his fellow apostles, along with legions of other Christians, in taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth, just as Jesus commanded at Matthew 28:16-20.

They changed the world with the Gospel!

It can happen again, on Capitol Hill and in our time. It’s tough work, but HillFaith is having an impact. If you would like to help HillFaith change the world on the most powerful Hill on the face of the Earth, click here. Every dollar counts and is tax-deductible to the maximum extent allowed under law.