What you don't see is that it does not necessarily follow therefrom that the viral sequences observed are the evolutionary products of a random development from "pre-living material" a/k/a, "matter in its motions."
It is widely understood, even in science (especially among physicists working this problem), that "life comes only from life." So how does non-living pre-existent matter bootstrap itself into life, and subsequently into mind?
You simply take it for granted that this is what happened. And you are unwilling to consider any other explanation.
On your analysis, the difference between man and orangutans, chimps, and gorillas is merely a difference in some quantitative measure (comparative ERV sequences), not a difference of kind. But I would argue that the difference between humans and apes is qualitative: Humans and apes are two entirely different orders of being, regardless of their similarities or dissimilarities WRT ERV sequences.
But Darwinism evidently denies this it sees man as simply part of a more or less isomorphic continuum in the face of simple observation and common sense. That is to say, there is nothing particularly remarkable about man: He's just a more sophisticated kind of ape. And presumably a newer and better kind of ape will "evolve" from here....
If Darwinism predicts anything at all, it predicts THAT.