(September 15, 2016 at 2:03 pm)popeyespappy Wrote:(September 15, 2016 at 12:07 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Let's leave that herring go for a little bit, and stay on track here. You are correct, that I am skeptical of the evolutionary claims concerning the diversity of all life. I think, that there are a lot of assumptions made in between what is observed, and what is claimed. And a lot of just so stories, such as the peppered moth. I have invited others, to give the facts concerning evolution and have not been taken up on the offer. If you would like to give your reasons and evidence and discuss mechanisms, then I would be happy to do so. However, I think it would be best to leave your caricature assumptions about what I haven't said (goddidit) out of it, and I'll do the same.
Herring? Sorry buddy, but you're the one that brought up non random guided evolution in this thread not me. Who exactly do you think is doing the guiding if not your Christian God? Extraterrestrials?
Does it matter? If you disagree with my conclusion, then why? Also, just because it is not unguided or random, doesn't mean that it cannot be explained through evolutionary means.
Quote:In the meantime try this one. The distribution of endogenous retroviral elements across the genomes of the various members of the Hominidae family is proof that you and I share common ancestors with members of the Genus pan, gorilla and pongo in that order going backwards through time.
Why do you think that they are retroviral? A retrovirus has only been observed to my knowledge to insert itself once into a heritable germline. While this shows, that it is possible, the extent, of this must have been much greater in the past. There is also the dependency on function is some of these areas, such as an essential role in placenta development. Also, are you arguing, that the specified complexity of these genes rules out convergent evolution or a targeted site for retroviral insertion?
