Ella Al-Shamahi

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.

And yet its mutation pattern fits almost perfectly with an evolutionary family tree.

And it was just like...

it's just sorry that's the noise that you make when your whole life is about to fall apart that that exact noise is the noise you make and i was just in hell like i was in hell um there'd be times where i'd just be looking out my window just going oh my god like what is this like what am i gonna do

Yeah, our marriage wasn't doing great.

Partly because we had an arranged marriage and we didn't know each other.

But partly for a number of different reasons.

One of which was this issue.

Like, you know, he, like...

I was clearly struggling and then there was a moment just an awful moment which was kind of I was just in the shower and as you often do in the shower you're kind of just having a conversation with yourself um you're also you know bluntly naked and and you're very exposed but you're in a safe place right and I kind of I basically I basically tell myself I have to find the strength to be honest that I just I believe in evolution

And I just fell to the floor.