There have been more than 40 of these identical ERVs identified in the human/chimp species alone and further mapping studies indicates that there may be in excess of 100,000 ERVs across all vertebrates making a detailed history of all evolutionary relationships possible. Work is underway to identify all of the ERVs in the entire primate family. Proof of the endogenization process caan be currently seen in real time through the koala lineage who have recently become infected with a gammaretrovirus called KoRV.
ERVs are as smoking as the gun that puts criminals in jail for murder. Where a court of law only needs one match to convict a person, ERV's provide more than 40 matches for common ancestry. It would be deniable if you could show identical chimp/human ERVs in a rabbit, whale or a cat ..... but you can't. ERVs are viruses that infected a common ancestor - not junk DNA that just so happened to look like each other in 43 different places on our genomes.
But that's not all there is to this story. Genetic drifting - the slow mutilation of DNA segments over time - also affects ERVs and identically mutilated ERVs have been found in humans and chimps. Lastly, the identically mutilated ERVs have also identically deteriorated over time indicating the same date of integration in humans and chimps.
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Sookey say: Funny thing about evolution - the only people who think it's dumb are those who don't have the slightest idea what the theory really says.
I knew a couple of creationist teens a while back who decided they were going to go to the source and learn about evolution from scientific papers in order to be able to debunk it better. Both soon realized that the theory is actually quite well-supported and makes perfect sense, and that what they had learned from religious leaders was pretty far removed from what the science actually said.
You haven't learned that yet. You still believe the ridiculous lies creationist leaders tell about evolution.
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