The absurd need for logical proofs for God

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It's not hard to find studies showing potential roles of these retroviruses, here:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26818265/

From the abstract of your linked article:

"We also report on studies that associate HERVs with human diseases of the brain and CNS. There is little doubt of an association between HERVs and a number of CNS diseases."

Thank you for proving my point. Worse than useless.

I already told you, and you're not listening; saying that something in our body is useless is always an appeal to ignorance, unless you figure out some unprecedented way to establish the uselessness of a body part.

Horseshit. Any fool can show that a broken part is useless. The pseudogene that fails to produce vitamin C in primates for example. Useless. Worse than useless in fact, since it takes resources to reproduce.

Apparently you're unable to draw the distinction between designed and useful. Design doesn't logically imply usefulness. Many chemical elements, for example, were around us for aeons of time and remained useless until very recently.  Lithium wasn't discoverd until 1817, and didn't really "become useful" until we started manufacturing batteries.
So, the function of something out there in nature largely depends on culture, technological advancement, etc. All of them are human-related processes.

Point of order! Which side of this debate are you arguing? I ask because you're arguing that humans give things function, utility, and purpose, not god. I mean, thanks and all that, but I really wasn't expecting you to argue both sides of this debate. Why don't I just leave you to it.