Yes You Are, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)

You are related to that chimpanzee
DNA proves it, but you can’t see
It isn’t in one generation birth directly

Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine
I am not stating this fact just to be mean
Our ancestor’s fossil records also can be seen

It is why a pine tree and palm tree
Are both called trees
It is why Monarch and Swallowtail butterflies please

It is why Galapagos and sea turtles have their shells
It is why whales and dolphins both have lungs
It is why squirrels and chipmunks look like fun

Crocs and gators will have you on the run
The chicken and bald eagle have scales on their feet
Millipedes and centipedes march to a beat

Like the back of a deck of Bicycle cards
Understanding evolution isn’t that hard
The uniform color is what all life shares

DNA sequence in two base pairs
Flip the top card over, look at it’s face
Flip the next card over, a slightly different air

The ace of diamonds looks not even close
To the King of clubs that time has posed
But the back of the deck both are enclosed

Yes you are related to that chimpanzee
And that blade of grass and the shark in the sea
And the cockroach and tardigrade

Of DNA all life is made

It is just that time and splits occurred
Over millions, billions of years be assured
Darwin and DNA have long since concurred

Think of those amino acids like machine language
Two simple choices of ones and zeros
All on your screen those two choices manage

To make up your operation systems, your programs
Your apps, your gaming, your social media, digital art
Zeros and ones are where computers start

Have multiple tabs on your laptop open?
You can look at those like different chromosomes
Making Facebook and Twitter look different

I know for the Christian this is inconvenient
That all they have is a dirt man Adam
Eve from a rib he call’s madam

Talking snakes with no vocal cords
Unicorns exclusive to the bible’s words
I find that mythology patently absurd

Yes you are related to that chimpanzee
The elephant and and zebra the stripes you see
Slight changes in sequence over time can be

The source of all the amazing diversity
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Sorry theists, but you are related to all life. The earliest life billions of years ago was single cell organisms. Slight changes in the base pairs of Adenine/Thymine and Guanine/Cytosine and Uracil in RNA over billions and millions of years has created all the diversity we see.

It is just time that makes life either closer related in looks in shorter periods and completely different species that are so far separated that the looks are nowhere close to similar. You don’t look like a cockroach because you are not as closely related to it as a chimpanzee. Just like a domestic house cat and tiger are closer related than a tiger and a millipede. But regardless all life has DNA in it ant that makes all life related going back to our common ancestor single cell organism.

Dawkins put it best in describing the diversity of life as being like a deck of cards, the back of the deck is uniform, or the DNA that all life shares, then the slight changes over time of the DNA sequences that make up the different faces on the cards.

The bible is not a scientific textbook. It is a old book of mythology that represents the very bad guesses of the humans that wrote them at that time because they didn’t know better.