Is Evolution a science or a faith?

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Oh really? Then please explain the distribution of endogenous retrovirus insertions in the genome of Hominidae. Use the Quran if you can.

Conjectures, conjectures, and only conjectures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zK81Zti...9&index=44

Sorry I’m just now getting around to responding to this, but discussions with creationists about evolution aren’t very high on my priority list lately. But since this video is just so far from accurate I felt it needed a response.

Harris, you really need to check your sources. Your video talks about fourteen instances of common ERVs. That is a serious misrepresentation of what the science is telling us. Geneticists believe there are at least 98,000 possible remnants of viral insertions that make up about 8% of the human genome. I say possible because it is possible that some of those remnants may not have occurred through viral insertions but are instead the result of other mutations.

Thing is that it really doesn’t matter if they are remnants of viral insertions or not. Even if every single instance got there through some other means their distribution is still exactly what we would expect to see if evolution were true. That is humans and mice have fewer genetic mutations in common than humans and gorillas. Humans and chimpanzees have more mutations in common than humans and gorillas or humans and mice. This is exactly how evolution predicts the genomes of related organisms should look. The further back in time the last common ancestor of any two organisms lived the more divergent their DNA should be.

You can scream and shout special creation all you want, but claiming there is no evidence for evolution is unadulterated pigshit.