Why not both?

[Loudmouth]

I see plainly you have no evidence.

Why aren't ERV's evidence for common ancestry?

Talking as if you did won't work. My eyes are not closed to evidence, but they are not open to godless and insane interpretations of it.

IOW, you refuse to address the evidence.

Thanks for playing.

"
Where Did Viruses Come From?


There is much debate among virologists about this question. Three main hypotheses have been articulated: 1. The progressive, or escape, hypothesis states that viruses arose from genetic elements that gained the ability to move between cells; 2. the regressive, or reduction, hypothesis asserts that viruses are remnants of cellular organisms; and 3. the virus-first hypothesis states that viruses predate or coevolved with their current cellular hosts."

http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-origins-of-viruses-14398218

In short science doesn't know!


Bing and a bam and a boom.

False comparison because we don't even know the virus burglar was alive and robbing in Noah's day, or how he moved around.

How sweet it is.

I guess you don't understand the difference between endogenous and exogenous retroviruses. Perhaps when you learn what the evidence is you can make a comment on it.

 

[dad]

Why aren't ERV's evidence for common ancestry?

Because you do not know the nature in the far past as we know it now. Obviously.

IOW, you refuse to address the evidence.

I pointed out science doesn't so much as know if there were viri in Noah's day, let alone how they did anything.

I guess you don't understand the difference between endogenous and exogenous retroviruses. Perhaps when you learn what the evidence is you can make a comment on it.

"Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are endogenous viral elements in the genome that closely resemble and can be derived from retroviruses."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus

Any way you look at it unless viri existed and did what it does now, you have no evidence, only bluster. Pretensions will not avail you anything here.

 

[Loudmouth]

Because you do not know the nature in the far past as we know it now.

Yes, we do. We have an entire sky of stars and galaxies that let us directly know what the past was like. It was just like now.

"Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are endogenous viral elements in the genome that closely resemble and can be derived from retroviruses."

Since we already know that retroviruses exist, it isn't that hard to figure out where endogenous retroviruses come from.

Any way you look at it unless viri existed and did what it does now, you have no evidence, only bluster. Pretensions will not avail you anything here.

Everywhere we look the physical laws were the same in the past.