RE: Christians, what is your VERY BEST arguments for the existence of God?
February 8, 2010 at 4:13 pm
The veracity of common descent doesn't depend on their being a single instance of life emerging. Common descent still works, evolution still works, etc with more than one starting point. The only difference would be that some species wouldn't be related to each other. This doesn't stop them being related to *some* other species, nor does it stop evolution from being true.
The only assumption needed for science is that of materialism, we've been through this before. Evolution doesn't need an assumption of some single starting point, since it has nothing to do with the origin of life. Evolution explains the diversity of life, i.e. what happens to life if you let it live and reproduce. None of this (mutation, natural selection, etc) depends on an assumption about some starting point. Even if God did come along and magic a load of animals into existence at the dawn of time, what has happened to those animals since then is still confirmed by evolution. Life adapts, it evolves, it changes. Nothing stops that.
The only assumption needed for science is that of materialism, we've been through this before. Evolution doesn't need an assumption of some single starting point, since it has nothing to do with the origin of life. Evolution explains the diversity of life, i.e. what happens to life if you let it live and reproduce. None of this (mutation, natural selection, etc) depends on an assumption about some starting point. Even if God did come along and magic a load of animals into existence at the dawn of time, what has happened to those animals since then is still confirmed by evolution. Life adapts, it evolves, it changes. Nothing stops that.
