[AndrewC]

If we just had this one piece of data to deal with, then it would make the most sense to say that the great apes are closely related and that humans diverged at some point before the viral insert appearing in the apes.

You missed the point. The results of the experiment do not matter, since any result will be explained to fit the desired tree.

[ahayes]

I'm sorry, I'm afraid you're going to have to substantiate this by showing that the evolutionary tree is unreasonable on the face of it. Otherwise it just looks like you're faulting the scientists for being logical and consistent.

[narby]

The results of the experiment do not matter, since any result will be explained to fit the desired tree.

The evidence doesn't matter to creationists. All of it will be twisted to fit the desired result.

Look up "Morton's Demon" sometime.