No. The statistics of coincidences are completely and utterly different from the statistics of similar ERV's due to common descent.
In a situation where you have common descent, you expect to see a hierarchy of organisms with more ERV's in common with those that share more recent common ancestors.
which are estimated to have last shared a common ancestor over 31 million years ago. By contrast, HERV-K18, RTVL-Ha, and RTVL-Hb are found only in humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, which are thought to have diverged around 5 million years ago. To estimate the age of each provirus the human/chimpanzee distances from each tree were used to calibrate the rate of molecular evolution at each locus. The most recent common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees lived approximately 4.5 million years ago
In a situation where you have coincidences, you expect commonalities to be largely uncorrelated with morphology or genetics (viruses can, after all, transfer across species...you've heard of the bird flu, right?).
The genetic evidence shows the former scenario. Thus coincidences are ruled out as a cause of the commonalities.
Except they did, and the evidence shows this.
1. More recent fossils are easier to find.
2. Scientists are probably more interested in human evolution than chimpanzee evolution.
3. Lay people are certainly more interested in human evolution than chimpanzee evolution, thus you wouldn't see that much in the way of research on chimp evolution outside of the field, even if the research was conducted.
THE DETERMINATING principle for who is or is not a Christian
the only thing important in the world to overcome is the theory of evolution.
if you can't overcome that particular delusion then you can not be a Christian.
seems to me to be an very strong statement that only YECists can be saved.
nothing else is as important as denying evolutionary theory. that really makes evolution important doesn't it?
once you can escape the deception of atheistic evolutionary theory then you might be able to be saved, but escaping this delusion is the most important thing you can do to be saved.
The point is that they are against Creationism and they are against God. They have joined the rebellion against the most High God.
Abraham was called out from among the people at UR. A people who were very advanced in science. But they had truth mixed together with error. Abraham was called out to take a stand for the truth and to take a stand against the error of his day.
Today we have been adopted into the family of Abraham. Just like he took a stand for the truth in his day, we follow and take a stand in our day.
The early church fathers took a stand for the truth. They argued against the ungodly beliefs of the Greeks, Romans and science of their day.
The Bible is given to us as a example for us to follow. Everyone can find themselves in the Bible. Either to bring honor to God or to dishonor God.
It is a choice we all make if we are going to seek after God and if we are going to seek the ways of God.
We can choose life, health and healing, or death destruction and desolation.
Satan -- with the help of his little red-headed, mental-terrorist step-child (edited by anovah)-- has turned this great nation upside-down.
So did God Create the Heavens and the Earth, or did mutations create the Heavens and the Earth? It has to be one or the other, it can not be both.
So did God Create the Heavens and the Earth, or did mutations create the Heavens and the Earth? It has to be one or the other, it can not be both.
So did God Create the Heavens and the Earth, or did mutations create the Heavens and the Earth? It has to be one or the other, it can not be both.
Oh sure, maybe it made more sense, but there is always the parady factor to take into consideration.
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