Dr. Donald Whitaker - Ex Atheist

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prove we came from soup

We didn't come from soup, we came from earlier primates, who evolved from other types of mammals (most likely candidate we have currently is Plesiadapis which existed c. 65m years ago), which evolved from earlier cold blooded land dwellers, which evolved from yet earlier cold blooded sea dwellers, which evolved from single celled lifeforms (google Cambrian Explosion or Burgess Shale or Ediacaran), and so on until we get to a period c.500m years after the beginning of our planet (so about 4bn years ago).

Now we're not sure about how life on earth got started, but that is not due to a lack of possible scenarios, but a surfeit of relatively equally plausible scenarios, a number of which have been shown under experimental conditions to be able to make long chain proteins, which are the necessary building blocks for all forms of life. So while we can't point to an event or scenario and say "this is how life begun" we can reasonably say that life began naturally, and evolved over billions of years into the fecundity and diversity we have today, and god had no hand, act nor part in this creation.