Resolved: Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs) confirm common ancestry (evidence for evolution)

.. I also want to point out that my opponent did not even address the resolution of my debate: ERVs confirm common ancestry. As a matter of fact, during my opponent's entire argument he did not mention ERVs even once! So all of my arguments on ERVs still stand and they carry over to this round. I'll summarize again: 1. Humans and Chimpanzees share 16 K-Class ERVs which indicates they had a common ancestor. 2. 135 different vertebrates were sequenced for ERVs and the results match the expected hierarchical distribution as predicted by the Theory of Evolution. 3. The evidence supports the idea that common ancestors existed, therefore macro-evolution happened. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please Note: I'm not obligated to address most of my opponent's propositions since they don't even address the topic at hand, but I'll address them for the sake of argument. "Again evolution versus creation debate. " > I purposely placed this debate in the Science section, so not to make it an "evolution vs creation" debate. "Who ever said that evolution even occurred? " > Everybody that has done legitimate research on the topic confirms that Evolution has occurred. Project Steve (1) is a testimony to the enormous amount of accredited scientists that support evolution. ***"R. Joe Brandon initiated a four-day, word-of-mouth petition of scientists in support of evolution in October 2005. During the four-day drive A Scientific Support For Darwinism And For Public Schools Not To Teach Intelligent Design As Science gathered 7733 signatures of verifiable scientists. During the four days of the petition, A Scientific Support for Darwinism received signatures at a rate 697,000 percent higher than the Discovery Institute's petition, A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism. "(1) "What makes evolution happen, what inspires evolution to begin? " > Life cannot exist without evolution, there is no known life form that is not subject to evolution- perhaps that's the long awaited Law of Evolution that creationists have been waiting for. .. the law would state something like: "Anything that alive is subject to Evolution" "What does life go to do with competition? " > Has my opponent ever watched the Discovery Channel or Animal Planet? Life is ALL about competition! Amongst people or amongst animals, competition is the foundation of life. Let's take human competition: people compete for a mate, they compete for an education, then for a job, then they compete for a husband/wife, those who seem best fit to support a family get to reproduce and pass on their genes. "I would state that anytime in my life I will see no change when I should have seen many. But I simply do not. When really I should I just don't. " > That's appeal to ignorance. .. just because you don't understand how nature works, it doesn't mean that the scientific conclusions are incorrect. "If we we're to stop evolution today and forget about it forever. The world would only become better. We would understand that God exists and we would understand why sin is evil. As we would not act animal like? With sexual desires or violent, fights or thievery. So I believe. " > There are MANY places in the world that Evolution is STILL not accepted and violence is rampant. .. but a quick look back in history would show us why you're wrong: Evolution has ONLY been around for about 150 years, before that most people in the world believed in God, yet violence occurred even more often. Since Evolution has been around, life has not become worse, as a matter of fact it has only become better! The life expectancy of people has gone up from about 30-40 years to 66.2 years (2). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Again, my opponent is YET to address the issue of Endogenous Retroviruses. .. therefore none of his arguments have ANY relevance to the evidence and resolution I presented. Conclusion: Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs) provide undeniable evidence for the existence of Common Ancestry. (1) . http://en.wikipedia.org... (2) . http://en.wikipedia.org...