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Author Topic:   ERV's: Evidence of Common Ancestory
Zucadragon
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Message 56 of 166 (438205)
12-03-2007 11:25 AM


ERV's ?
I'm not sure I fully understand the significance of ERV's.. I read your intro post and I'm just checking to see if I got this right :
1. ERV's are viruses that have entered a hosts cells a long long time ago (say millions of years or longer).
2. These viruses have managed to attach themselves to the hosts DNA at a place.. This place is so unique that for another virus to attach to the same spot in its DNA, would be a gigantically low chance of around 0.001 %
3. through sexual reproduction, this virus has spreaded but through a mutation or other cause this virus has not been able to harm the host.
4. over generations, speciation occurs, new species form and the virus with them.
5. through analysing which species has that virus on that exact spot, scientists can determine which of the species have a close common ancestor together.. All the factors together make it nearly impossible to draw any other conclusion then these species having a common ancestor.
Am I right in all what I just said?
as for Refpunk.. You made up a version of the theory of evolution which is not the one used by scientists.. Of course scientists and evolutionists won't support it.. This doesn't mean the theory is bunk.. It means what you made up is bunk. Figure this.
If I say god is a potato with wings and thats why I think it is silly for creationists to believe in him.. And you say thats not what god is. I would say that thats why god is fairytale because you can't support him..
Do you see how this sounds, I'm making up nonsense about something just like you did and then saying if you don't support it, then god is bunk just as you said that if we don't support your nonsense, evolution is bunk.

  
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