Somebody doesn't understand statistics. That aside ... The ERV similarity as evidence of a common ancestor has mileage. The video doesn't give sufficient detai

Somebody doesn't understand statistics. That aside ... The ERV similarity as evidence of a common ancestor has mileage. The video doesn't give sufficient details to make the assertions that it does. Are those ERV sequences predisposed to align to particular sequences and hence appear on particular genes? How many such sequences do we share with other primates? other mammals? molluscs? trees? What have these ERVs survived intact, what's the relative proportion of partials and do those match up too. Even if the insertions are random, then are organisms more fit with the insertions at a particular point. Hence the virus could have affected multiple organisms randomly* but only those with the insertion at a particular location were fit enough to survive. This appears to contradict this being evidence of a 'recent' common ancestor. The method that shows "evolution being true has a probability of 1" can also be used to show that the probability of extraterrestrial life is zero [abiogenisis observed = 1, number of stars O(10^23)]. -- * = analogy: kids draw on their bedroom walls in random places (perturbed by height; this is equivalent to some sites being favoured) their mothers wipe off the drawings where they see them (virus at some sites reduces fitness of organism). Observe all kids walls, drawings only appear behind the bed - hence kids all got together at some point and decided to only draw on the wall behind the bed (common ancestor).