Thanks for the Gobbledygook/Acronym translation.
In all of this, the only thing I object to is the interjection of politics, liberal politics, to be precise about it, into the study of evolution, and there's plenty of it.
I don't believe we are any more closely related to Chimpanzees than any other ape for the reasons I illustrated in my analogies regarding cousins, apples, and kumquats.
Science and religion for the most part get along, but clash when it comes to evolution. I side with science, but how important is it?
Although I find evolution fascinating, I have to ask why it's so all fired important to teach it in public schools when there's a sizable portion of the population that rejects it out of hand. Furthermore, people who don't buy into it function just fine. So what's the point? Aren't there plenty of other things available to include in the curriculum besides this topic. The liberals insist on jamming it down everyone’s collective throats as a wedge issue power play. There isn't any other reason to do so.
I don't believe we are any more closely related to Chimpanzees than any other ape for the reasons I illustrated in my analogies regarding cousins, apples, and kumquats. So how do you explain the way the ERVs show up in various species of ape, as though there was a family tree with people and chimps on the same branch?
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Are you willing to claim that the hypothetical designer is constrained by the rule that any ERV in both new world and old world monkeys must also be in every species of ape, including ourselves?
By the rule that any ERV in both orangutans and gibbons, which live in Asia must also be in every species of African ape, including ourselves?
If the hypothetical designer is constrained by the rules summarized in the diagram, why? Explain in detail.
If it isn't, then why do we find this pattern?
This is just the primates. The same sort of rules apply everywhere: artiodactyls, carnivores, you name it.
Here is another essay from TalkOrigins with a family tree for artiodactyls; among other things, it indicates that a genetic marker found in both pigs and whales will also be found in hippos and cows.
With all these examples, how reasonable is doubting "common descent"?