u/Anime-Fan-69

In the last evo-bio course with Erika [NOLASTNAME], Will Duffy said that

https://www.youtube.com/live/vhOyNiv6PTY?si=YSglirJI7xhwX673&t=16350s

"I will never accept that humans are apes"

Now this is just a flat-out dogmatic admission. Yet just 20 seconds earlier, he also says that "humans descending from apes seems reasonable" so im not sure what he believes. Well, if humans have descended from apes, then we would be apes. Flat-out.

Will Duffy also talked about soul stuff and anectodes from random people. Even if all those anecdotes were true, and mind-body dualism was true, humans would still be apes. As we have all the physical charachteristics associated with being apes. Erika [NOLASTNAME] had also told him that genetically, there is NO WAY to seperate humans from apes. To this Will Duffy would say that apes are all hominoids except humans. But if you say "all of them except for us", then that is a Freudian admission that we are one of them. To this Will Duffy would probably say that there is something fundamentally different about humans. And you might be right in a certain context. BUT, we are talking about biology here. Were there is NOT ONE GOOD REASON to seperate humans from apes.

İ think the game would be just fine if they were removed. Like, they arent very important side charachters. Like baking bread? So boring. He is just one of the 5 Hooligans.

İ am debunking AiG's math on ERVs.

>1.3 Unreasonable Fixation Rate 1.3.1 The necessary fixation rate and the observations As explained earlier, viral infections are supposedly random, but in humans, 200,000 ERVs are claimed to be in identical genome locations, the second obvious question is what mechanism caused this fixation, and whether it could have happened in a reasonable time frame. This can be easily estimated. To be generous, consider the earliest primate fossils are dated to about 50Mya. With viral infections starting from the onset, this means there is about 1 endogenization and fixation per about 250 years (50M / 200k). Using a standard 25 year generation time, this also means 1 endogenization and fixation per 10 gegenerations.

There are many problems with this math. The biggest problem is why does it have to start at primates? ERVs existed long before then.

Second problem, primates did not originate 50 mya. They originated closer to 65 mya.

Third problem, the average generation time for most primates is closer to ten years. The rhesus macaque starts reproducing at 4 years old, for example and enters menopause at 25. This is all basic knowledge anyone can check in 10 seconds. İ dont have any degrees in paleontolgy, zoology, genetics or any other relevant field, but even İ immediately realized the flaws with their calculations. AiG is lying, as always.

Edit: I remember just yesterday looking theough AiG's website and seeing this text, but nıw İ cant seem to find it. It might also be from Evolution News.

If you dont understand these laws, you cant understand evolution.

1 - Law of irreversibility: When a trait (eg. Fingers in Artiodactyls) is lost, it cant be regained.

2 - (Mendel's) Law(s) of Ingeritance: Lets say a human has sticky ear-wax. Then if that human fucks with another human with dry ear-wax, then the resulting kid will have sticky ear-wax. However, if the resulting kid then fucks with another sticky ear-wax haver, then there is a 25% chance that the resulting kid will have dry ear-wax.

3 - Law of Ontogeny: The young of 2 closely related animals will look more similar to each other than their parents.

Bring these up next time you debate Kent Hovind.

1. Canine transmissible venereal tumor - The most famous one. It took place in an American dog 6000 - 11000 years ago. And since you cant evolve out of a clade, this is just as much a dog as a Husky.

2. Devil facial tumor disease - A cancer which affects the faces of Tasmanian devils.

3. Contagious reticulum cell sarcoma - A cancer which affects the structure of the cells of Syrian hamsters.

Hi guys. İ am doing research on the YouTuber Jaiden Animations and am wondering whether or not Hugo is the granddad of Jaiden Dittfach. After all, they are the only two Dittfach's listed on Wikipedia.