This blog already has other posts about ERVs. The best explanations on this blog for this undeniable evidence for the evolutionary relationship between modern human apes and the other modern ape species are at Endogenous Retroviruses make Jeebus cry.
If you're an evolution denier then you're either a Christian Bible thumper or you're a Muslim suicide bomber or you belong to some other idiotic religious cult. You can't deny this extraordinarily powerful evidence for evolution without looking like an idiot. You can't invoke your usual "we science deniers interpret this evidence differently from the biologists". You can't say that because there is only one possible explanation that makes sense. ERVs in identical locations in the chomosomes of more than one species can only mean these ERVs were inherited from a common ancestor species.
If you're a creationist (you prefer magical creation instead of science) and you try to deny this evidence, you are either too cowardly to try to understand it, or you're too lazy to understand it, or you're just plain stupid. Either way you will look like an idiot if you don't accept this as 100% for sure proof we share an ancestor with chimps and all other Great Ape species.
Go ahead and study it creationists. If you don't like being called willfully ignorant then educate yourselves. Study this evidence long enough so even you can understand it. If instead you go running to your favorite professional retard for the magic Jeebus man for their idiotic explanation of ERVs, you will still be willfully ignorant and you will still be an uneducated moron. You will never learn anything if you listen to professional assholes for your Christian death cult or Muslim death cult.
If I sound a bit disrespectful to you science deniers, then try to imagine how much respect you would have for a flat-earther. You would probably think the flat-earther was insane. Well guess what, creationists, every biologist in the world agrees that evolution deniers are equal to flat-earthers. That's your reputation. Are you proud to be an idiot or are you going to grow up, educate yourselves, and face facts?
It's your life to waste. Make a decision. A lifetime of knowing nothing about reality or a lifetime spent learning all you can about it. Your choice. Your disease is your problem, not mine.
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A National Embarrassment
Only one in six Americans accept a form of human evolution that does not invoke divine intervention or guidance.
SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND SOCIETY: THE PROBLEM OF EVOLUTION IN AMERICA
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May 25, 1925 | Tennessee Teacher Is Indicted for Evolution Lessons
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Researchers aim to assemble the tree of life for all 2 million named species. The resulting tree will be digital, downloadable, continuously updated.
Researchers aim to assemble the tree of life for all 2 million named species. The resulting tree will be digital, downloadable, continuously updated.
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Richard Leakey predicts everyone will accept evolution in the near future because new scientific discoveries will continue to rapidly accelerate. However a quick look at the comments at these two websites, especially the 2nd one, shows that Mr. Leakey might not realize how serious the stupidity problem is here in Idiot America.
Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history
Scientist declares creationism will soon be extinct
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Richard Leakey predicts everyone will accept evolution in the near future because new scientific discoveries will continue to rapidly accelerate. However a quick look at the comments at these two websites, especially the 2nd one, shows that Mr. Leakey might not realize how serious the stupidity problem is here in Idiot America.
Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history
Scientist declares creationism will soon be extinct
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I keep finding more and more undeniable evidence for evolution. Please see these two websites:
Our inner fishes
Anatomical clues to human evolution from fish
The early human embryo looks very similar to the embryo of any other mammal, bird or amphibian – all of which have evolved from fish.
Your eyes start out on the sides of your head, but then move to the middle.
The top lip along with the jaw and palate started life as gill-like structures on your neck. Your nostrils and the middle part of your lip come down from the top of your head.
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I keep finding more and more undeniable evidence for evolution. Please see these two websites:
Our inner fishes
Anatomical clues to human evolution from fish
The early human embryo looks very similar to the embryo of any other mammal, bird or amphibian – all of which have evolved from fish.
Your eyes start out on the sides of your head, but then move to the middle.
The top lip along with the jaw and palate started life as gill-like structures on your neck. Your nostrils and the middle part of your lip come down from the top of your head.
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I wrote the following comment at a news website about America's stupidity problem.
"16 percent said they hold to the view that humans developed over millions of years, without God's involvement."
This is not a view. It's a basic scientific fact. All creatures, including modern human apes, evolved from a common ancestor. Magic god fairies didn't have anything to do with it. Only 16% of Americans get it right and that's a national disgrace. The problem is religion and in America the problem is the Christian death cult. Obviously the only possible way to improve America's scientific literacy is to first eradicate the magic Jeebus man fantasy. Evolution must be taught starting in the First Grade before the minds of students are destroyed by religious brainwashing. Also, Christians need to be ridiculed relentlessly. They contribute nothing to human progress. Christians just get in the way.
By the way virtually 100% of the world biologists agree people developed from ancient apes without intervention from a fairy's magic wand. The only exceptions are the professional morons who work for Bible colleges.
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I wrote the following comment at a news website about America's stupidity problem.
"16 percent said they hold to the view that humans developed over millions of years, without God's involvement."
This is not a view. It's a basic scientific fact. All creatures, including modern human apes, evolved from a common ancestor. Magic god fairies didn't have anything to do with it. Only 16% of Americans get it right and that's a national disgrace. The problem is religion and in America the problem is the Christian death cult. Obviously the only possible way to improve America's scientific literacy is to first eradicate the magic Jeebus man fantasy. Evolution must be taught starting in the First Grade before the minds of students are destroyed by religious brainwashing. Also, Christians need to be ridiculed relentlessly. They contribute nothing to human progress. Christians just get in the way.
By the way virtually 100% of the world biologists agree people developed from ancient apes without intervention from a fairy's magic wand. The only exceptions are the professional morons who work for Bible colleges.
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I copied and pasted this poem from a comment at Evolution and Eastern Orthodoxy:
Richard Harris on said:
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I copied and pasted this poem from a comment at Evolution and Eastern Orthodoxy:
Richard Harris on said:
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I wrote this comment which may or may not be censored at Evolution and Eastern Orthodoxy:
Christians who accept evolution seem to forget their magic Jeebus man was a creationist. If evolution is true then Jeebus was a know-nothing idiot. Pro-science Christians should ask themselves why do they want to worship an uneducated moron.
I suggest the best way to deal with the religious implications of evolution is throw out religions. Like the poem says, all religious fantasies are ridiculous woo. Everything is much simpler when the woo is thrown out.
"Only two kinds of people have ever tried to convert me: Christian fundamentalists and new atheists."
Fundies try to convert. Atheists only ask that you grow up. Throw out the childish stuff including the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, and the magic god fairy.
New atheists? The word atheist doesn't need any adjectives.
I suggest you should listen to atheists instead of complaining about them.
You wrote about their "astounding philosophical naïveté".
That's interesting. Do you expect non-religious people to waste their time studying your bullshit? That would be like studying astrology. A normal person doesn't have to know everything about bullshit to be able to identify it as bullshit.
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Sam Harris wrote, "It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. [The] problem with this linkage between religious and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.
I wrote this comment which may or may not be censored at Evolution and Eastern Orthodoxy:
Christians who accept evolution seem to forget their magic Jeebus man was a creationist. If evolution is true then Jeebus was a know-nothing idiot. Pro-science Christians should ask themselves why do they want to worship an uneducated moron.
I suggest the best way to deal with the religious implications of evolution is throw out religions. Like the poem says, all religious fantasies are ridiculous woo. Everything is much simpler when the woo is thrown out.
"Only two kinds of people have ever tried to convert me: Christian fundamentalists and new atheists."
Fundies try to convert. Atheists only ask that you grow up. Throw out the childish stuff including the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, and the magic god fairy.
New atheists? The word atheist doesn't need any adjectives.
I suggest you should listen to atheists instead of complaining about them.
You wrote about their "astounding philosophical naïveté".
That's interesting. Do you expect non-religious people to waste their time studying your bullshit? That would be like studying astrology. A normal person doesn't have to know everything about bullshit to be able to identify it as bullshit.
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Sam Harris wrote, "It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. [The] problem with this linkage between religious and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.
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for superstitious folk like you.
The Christian’s Jehovah, an Almighty God,
is a capricious and cantankerous clod;
and, so far as I can tell,
the Christian often is as well.
Confused by dogma, the god-fearin’ fogey
can’t fathom the nature of that Bible Bogey.
Is it a father, his son, and an apotropaic ghost too?
Well, it should be obvious that’s ridiculous woo.
And Christians claim this god, in its Empyrean lair,
is omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent and fair,
but, with the unresolved problem of theodicy,
their dogma is eristic, Christian idiocy.
The Jew’s Yahweh, that meshuggeneh, the jerk,
set Jews strict rules on when to work,
how to dress, and what to sup or sip,
and giving baby boys the snip.
The myths of Bronze Age, goat-herding nomads,
have them, metaphorically, by the gonads.
The Moslem’s Allah, a fierce desert djinn,
demands under ‘Islam’, literally, ‘Submission’.
Apostasy is treated just like a crime;
they’ll threaten to kill you, to keep you in line,
and if you dare draw Mohammad in a comic cartoon,
there’ll be riots and killings from here to Khartoum.
Hindu, Sikh, Jain, and Buddhist,
Zoroastrian, Baha’i, Mormon, and Scientologist,
Confucianist, Shintoist, and Taoist too,
Spiritualist, Wiccan, and the New Ager into woo.
Yea, verily, those of each and every religion,
are mired in the miasma of superstition.
The gods from the Bronze Age up to modern times,
and from the Arctic down to tropical climes,
have inspired theology that’s unsubstantiated twaddle,
on what an invisible and silent god’ll
devise as its inscrutable, eschatological plan,
but all the gods were made in the image of man.
So, why should yours be the one true faith,
in a magic, phantasmagorical wraith?
Belief, without evidence, is just plain crazy,
ignorant, stupid, or thoughtlessly lazy.
When evolution happens, it’s due to Natural Selection,
so life derives no purpose, at a theistic god’s direction.
The evidence is we have just this one life,
with all its pleasures, challenges, toil, and strife.
As social beings we evolved our moral sensibility
to combat selfishness, lust, and venality.
Religion misunderstands, and so invokes the supernatural,
while Humanism strives to promote the good and rational.