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Then there is the issue of the Waiting Time Problem. The Waiting Time Problem is a calculation of how long it takes for coordinated mutations to evolve and stick in a population, given the most optimal conditions. Since virtually all genes don’t function independently, but instead operate as part of a complex interdependent system, coordinated mutations would need to arise in different areas at the same time to facilitate functional change. But according to the evolutionist’s own research (Durrett & Schmidt, 2007) in population genetics, a specific set of eight mutations (which must arise in the context of a specific genomic location) to become fixed in a population of 10,000 humans would take 650 million years. In 2010, another research team, Lynch and Abegg crunched the numbers and got a waiting time of over 10 million generations for just TWO mutations to stick in a population of 10,000 humans. Another paper from 2015 titled, "The waiting time problem in a model hominin population," determined it would take roughly 1.5 million years for a single beneficial mutation to stick in a population of just 10,000. Two specific beneficial mutations would take 84 million years. But the human lineage split from apes, according to evolutionists, was less than 10 million years ago - and humans have 689 extra genes, as previously mentioned. The amount of time it would take to mutate a Chimp into a human is more than we have in all the universe.