Ella Al-Shamahi

We're the exception.

Right.

I can give a lot of ground.

All other species.

All the other billions.

Yeah.

And then what happened was I came across retrotransposons, which are very, very complicated to explain.

But basically, it's like a foreign organism's DNA within our own bodies.

The pattern of mutations...

within the retrotransposons that we have align on a family tree with what you would expect from evolution if you then looked at those same retrotransposons within chimps.

How does that, like, the only interpretation for the mutations that you find in retro-transposons is that it is evolution through descent with modification over, you know, hundreds of thousands.

There's no other interpretation.

This is the thing, because one of the arguments that, for those of you who don't know, one of the arguments that creationists use to explain, well, why is our DNA so similar?

Why is our DNA so similar to chimps?

They're like, yeah, but they look similar, and they have so many similar behaviors, and they have so many similar mechanisms.

And on one level, you're like, oh, okay, there is some logic to that.

Retrotransposons...

They're not functional.

It's not like, oh, it's a bit of DNA that helps me process, for example, water or helps me process carbohydrates.

It's a non-functional bit of DNA.