The Human Genome: More Viruses than Genes?

jmulvey writes "A new University of Georgia study shows that most of the human genome contains a huge historical record of retroviruses. The study adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that viruses were instrumental in the evolution of chimps into humans."

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Re:transposons

[young-earth]

If Christians had their way, the "facts" in bio textbooks (college and HS) would be real facts. Christians like truth.

For example, Haeckel's embryos, in most every textbook directly or indirectly. In the mid 1800's, Haeckel for whatever reason totally faked some drawings of embryonic development. Within a short time, his university tried and convicted him of fraud. Almost 150 years later, those drawings are still in most textbooks, cited as evidence for evolution. Let's work to get rid of that lie.

There are many other examples, let's work on getting rid of the just plain proven wrong things in textbooks. That's something that evolutionists and creationists should be able to agree on - getting proven facts in and junk science out.

Re:transposons

[PD]

Almost 150 years later, those drawings are still in most textbooks, cited as evidence for evolution.

Let's get rid of *your* lie. The idea that embryonic development is evidence for evolution was abandoned by science a very long time ago. I can only believe that you either don't know any better, or you are deliberately making things up.

Evolution is a fact, that's well established. All debate about evolution is about how it happened.