[Diamond]

TOE most certainly predicts that a retroviral insertion will, in the absence of further transpositon, remain in an orthologous location.

It is not a prediction of TOE; it is an observation that is retroactively called a prediction, and then because the observation fits the prediction it is presented as evidence for TOE. TOE can accomodate the data but it can also accomodate its absence, as it has in the past.

In addition, most retroviral insertions are heavily methylated, ruling out expression.

True, and yet there is protein expression in humans.

Cordially,

[Right Wing Professor]

It is not a prediction of TOE; it is an observation that is retroactively called a prediction, and then because the observation fits the prediction it is presented as evidence for TOE.

The obvious converse of evolution by mutation followed by natural selection is that an absence of mutation will result in no selection.

True, and yet there is protein expression in humans.

By all means cite evidence of expression of a heavily methylated retroviral insertion.