[GodGunsGuts]

I told you, it’s going to take some time. And besides, I hardly think that’s your best evidence for evolution. For instance, ERV and Vitamin C Synthase are massively swamped by the fossil record. But give me some time, and after I have researched these issues to my satisfaction I will be sure to get back to you. You have my word on that.

[allmendream]

ERV’s are called the “smoking gun” of common descent. I don’t know about ‘best evidence for evolution’ but if you could explain why the data collected so far is consistent with common descent yet is somehow NOT due to common descent but some other phenomenon or mechanism you would probably win the Nobel Prize.

There is no “fossil record” of ERV’s or Vitamin C Synthase, unless you count the ‘fossilized’ insertion of a retrovirus genome into a common ancestor as being part of the ‘fossil record’. I don’t know anyone else that does.