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To: Sopater
“Next “evolutionary” level”? Evolution is not equivalent to advancement. This is your constant refrain and shows just how much you do not understand the theory.

Neutral mutations are “not necessarily destructive”? No, they are absolutely neutral, neither an asset or a detriment; thus neutral. This advances the theory because it shows how selection works on some DNA but not other sections.

ERV’s do support common ancestry. Finally you got something correct. How you think this isn't a Scientific advancement of the theory of evolution through natural selection I do not fathom, it is supporting evidence for the theory of evolution that the remnants of our common ancestry are there in the genome, subject to the neutral mutation rate.

52 posted on 05/28/2008 11:05:02 AM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: allmendream
“Next “evolutionary” level”? Evolution is not equivalent to advancement.

So in your opinion, humans are no more advanced that eukaryotic cells? Boy, it is tough to keep up with you intellectual types...
54 posted on 05/28/2008 11:50:23 AM PDT by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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