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I Accept the Theory of Evolution

Humans and chimpanzees both carry inactive genes acquired from viruses.
This occurs because some viruses insert a copy of their genome into the DNA of whichever species they infect. These are called retro-viruses... HIV is one such.

Where such viruses infect the cells that produce sperm and eggs, they can be passed on across generations.

The human genome contains thousands of these remnants of long-past infections... now rendered harmless... and so does the chimpanzee genome.

Most of them are in exactly the same place on both genomes.
That’s astonishing, so I’ll repeat it: most of them are on [i]exactly[/i] the same place on both genomes.

Let’s choose an explanation from a few (non-exhaustive) options:

1. astonishing coincidence

2. when the gods created humans they decided to sprinkle around several thousand retro-viruses, and they put the preponderance of retroviruses at matching sites on both species because... umm... because... well... because... stop questioning the gods!

3. The majority of retroviruses match because both species inherited them from a common ancestor, who had itself accumulated them from the line of its own descent.

The small number which do not match are the remnants of infections that each species has warded off independently since divergence from the common ancestor... as predicted by the Theory of Evolution.
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Thereyouare · 56-60, M
I believe in both but do you not find it interesting that chimpanzees and apes cannot swim at all they sink and black people cannot swim either not full blooded black people
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@Thereyouare [quote]I believe in both[/quote]

I'm not sure what the other scientific Theory might be, so I'm not sure what you mean by 'both', but the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection doesn't require belief... it's the best explanation to date that consistently, completely, and coherently explains the available evidence.

[quote]chimpanzees and apes cannot swim at all[/quote]

All primates (bonobos, humans, apes, and chimpanzees) can [i]learn[/i] to swim… but it does need to be learned.

Among the primates, this is easiest for humans, because they have a much greater percentage of body fat than the other primates, so it’s easier for humans to float. The extra body fat helps us to regulate our temperature, because although we have as many hairs per square centimetre as a chimpanzee, our hair is finer and shorter

Humans are also the sweatiest primate, once again to help us to regulate our temperature (incidentally, this means that we’re also the smelliest primate).

[quote]black people cannot swim either not full blooded black people[/quote]

I have no idea what you mean by the term ‘full blooded black people’.
Are you referring to people who have more melanin in their skin than you?

Only 30% of African-Americans can swim, and this reflects the prejudice and segregation that was common in your country in the last century… African-Americans were denied access to aquatic recreational facilities. Once given the opportunity to learn, African-Americans swim just as well as any other human. Why wouldn’t they?
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Thereyouare Black people can swim, holy shit. Is this serious???
@Thereyouare I was about to say, I used to live in Africa, and the only reason people didn't swim was because of the lack of clean water. But they learned to swim just fine in swimming pools.