Disproving the Bible

[FatAndFaithless]

That fact is all that modern synthesis deals with. "Before that" falls under the purvey of other explanations, other theories. How do you know that your genetic material comes from the same man as mine? Also, where did his genetic material come from?

We know that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Carbon chauvinism has been out for awhile now. In the case of our lives, it's not an issue of likelihood or probability, again, evolution is an observation, not just a good guess based on how likely we think something might be (or unlikely). I love imagining multiple sets of building blocks for life, we just don't see that here - but nothing prevents it from being so, and we also know that. Silicon is a candidate (and we see alot of chemistry in our carbon based life that leverages silicon), as are other elements, and adding complexity is just useless, life doesn't have to be carbon based, nor does it have to be as complex as our own to qualify as life. Once you do away with that unnecessary qualifier a whole host of other "building blocks" become candidates.

How is that assumption looking now?

I should have learned by now not to use words like assume in this forum. Word choice notwithstanding, I have seen no discoveries of life existing that does not share the same building blocks, so my point still applies--we should expect to see vast similarities between all living things if we share the same building blocks.

We do see vast similarities in the genetic code of living things...that's kind of one of the best points for common ancestry.