(November 26, 2018 at 9:48 pm)CDF47 Wrote:(November 26, 2018 at 3:55 pm)no one Wrote: Funniest thing about evolution deniers is that they accept science in every other aspect of their lives. The GPS on their phones. Their phones themselves. Their streaming service. The internet. Their heating and cooling system. The medicine they take. Even if the metorologist says there is a 95% chance of rain on Wednesday, most of them will carry an umbrella. But the science of evolution is somehow hogwash, and they have no idea what they are talking about.
I believe there is micro-evolution, adaptation, mutations,..., but not in macro-evolution. I do not believe a species can change kinds.
Then how do you account for the fact that we share 97% of our ERV with chimpanzees? ERV are Endogenous RetroViruses, viruses that inserted themselves into your DNA, got stuck there, and eventually were transmitted to the entire species. We share 97% of ours with the chimps, and that's the same virus in the same location with the same mutations and the same LTR "header" and "footer". Similarities of ERV are also seen in other primates and more distantly related organisms, with decreasing similarity observed between more distantly related organisms.
This is precisely what the theory of common descent predicts. How do you account for it?