"If it were, then there would be some potential observation that would falsify it, like a Precambrian rabbit or an ERV found in the same position in the genome of chimps and gorillas, but not in people would falsfy ToE."
Then the theory of evolution has been falsified!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11378389&query_hl=5&itool=pubmed_docsum
Don't worry, I know you didn't really mean it anyway. Darwinists like to pretend that evolution is falsifiable, but they don't actually follow through with it. I don't necessarily blame them per se, except for being self-deluded enough to think that such things would actually falsify the theory of evolution.
That's interesting. Thanks.
If I understand correctly, this would mean that the human-chimp split is closer than anyone thought to the split from gorillas.
But all the other ERVs track the phylogenetic tree...
I'll have to study the paper and see if they can find the approximate time it happened.
Sigh. More problems to be solved.