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Creationist eat your heart out! Evolution is the ONLY logical explanation!

We have in our genome what are known as Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs).
These represent the genetic information of viruses which at one time infected an organism's reproductive cells and so the viral genetic information was encoded at random points in the genome and passed on to the offspring.

If life was created discretely in different "kinds" then there is no reason that ERVs should be present at the same random places in a genome with increasing frequency the more closely related the organism and the odds that this has occurred randomly are akin to finding a specific needle in a stack of needles and also finding it at the same point in a hundred other needle stacks.

Creations just falls flat here.

Thoughts?
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How about all the evidence that eukaryotic mitochondria are actually endo-symbiots?
@CopperCicada
I'm unfamiliar with that.
Can you explain how that relates to ERVs?
@Pikachu Doesn't really relate to ERV's. It's another intracellular marker of evolution. The short of it is that mitochondria likely come form symbiotic bacteria. This is based on unique characteristics of ribosomes, transport proteins, DNA, that are very similar to those of bacteria.
@CopperCicada
Very cool.
Do you happen to have a link that you found illuminating but accessible to layman?
@Pikachu [media=https://youtu.be/8oSqXAwLsZc]
@CopperCicada

Thanks!
I guess that's a similar circumstance to lichen or jellyfish
@Pikachu With lichens there are algal symbiots within the fungal matrix. The endosymbiosis of mitochondria and chloroplasts is within the cell. But yea.
@CopperCicada

I think i was doing quite well to identify the similarity!🧐
lol i'm very ignorant.
Interesting subject though!
@Pikachu Sure. That wasn't a criticism.

I like your ERV argument. Too many of these evolution discussions get lost because they are at this Darwinian scale of macroevolution.

Just take a cell and there are all these signs of evolution. Your ERV case is of genetic markers.

I thought I'd throw in the mitochondria one so you can use that one in the future.
@CopperCicada
No worries, i wasn't taking it as criticism, just trying to salve me ego lol

Your examples are intriguing and i must investigate them so i can properly understand their significance.