[divine_moment_of_facts]

LOL! They just won’t give up will they?

[GeorgeSaden]

Excellent work.

[donmeaker]

G-d created that DNA in different species to test your faith....

[mountainlion]

This does not prove anything to me. The one that invented the DNA created the monkey and the Human. Humans are distinct form all his creations on earth.

[lqcincinnatus]

Evolution, Global Warming = Political Science

If life begats life, how does non-life begat life?

[Paperpusher]

They seem to be looking for differences in HERV-K LTR insertions in orthologous loci only in humans and primates.
How about looking for them in, say Ursus spelaeus, the extinct cave bear, or woolly mammoths. They have sequences for both. If even a few HERV-K LTR insertions are the same in such divergent species, then the original study would be moot. I.e. look for - proof as well as + proof.

[Southack]

"If two humans have the same identical ERV, it is proof that they are descended from a common ancestor. And if two different species have the identical ERV, it is proof that they too are descended from a common ancestor."

Nope. The above is poor logic akin to saying:
"If two software programs have the same identical ERV, it is proof that they are descended from a common program. And if two different Operating Systems have the identical ERV, it is proof that they too are descended from a common program."

Which is to say, the author is dismissing code re-use.

DNA is programming code. To dismiss code re-use is to ignore the entire structure of genes (software sub-routines).

Or to put the above in terms that the simpletonian Darwinists might be able to reach up and grasp: an ERV can be inserted in the lab into the same desired place in an animal's DNA; into multiple species in the same place, in fact...none of which has anything to do with Evolution, but everything to do with routine Intelligent lab work.