Does " interesting as it is" mean "although it is interesting"?

Context:

At this point, godless materialists might be cheering. If hu-
mans evolved strictly by mutation and natural selection, who
needs God to explain us? To this, I reply: I do. The comparison
of chimp and human sequences, interesting as it is, does not
tell us what it means to be human. In my view, DNA sequence
alone, even if accompanied by a vast trove of data on biological
function, will never explain certain special human attributes,
such as the knowledge of the Moral Law and the universal
search for God. Freeing God from the burden of special acts of
creation does not remove Him as the source of the things that