[Right Wing Professor]

I would expect them to suffer similar mutations, being that much of their design is so similar.

They suffered not similar but identical mutations; and not just mutations, but inclusion of identical extraneous genetic material. Why would 'degeneration' cause insertion of an identical element of an identical virus in an identical part of the genome of humans and the great apes?

Poor Pongo faces the cursed ground because of Adam, not Eve.

If Adam inserted identical retroviruses in his own genome and into the genomes of the higher primates, he is indeed a fiend, and I'm ashamed to have him as an ancestor.

[RightWingNilla]

If Adam inserted identical retroviruses in his own genome and into the genomes of the higher primates, he is indeed a fiend, and I'm ashamed to have him as an ancestor.

ROFL!!!

I am in tears here RWP.

[PatrickHenry]

If Adam inserted identical retroviruses in his own genome and into the genomes of the higher primates, he is indeed a fiend, and I'm ashamed to have him as an ancestor.

As long as you don't say he was drunk.

[bondserv]

If Adam inserted identical retroviruses in his own genome and into the genomes of the higher primates, he is indeed a fiend, and I'm ashamed to have him as an ancestor.

Adam gets bad press even from those who question his existence.

If apes came from a different planet I would agree with you. We would have to come up with some hysterical idea of back and forth meteors between our planet and theirs to match up viruses.

Oh yeah, we had "The Planet of the Apes" and a more scientific oriented fiction "The NASA Mars Meteor".