(June 10, 2015 at 11:55 am)Esquilax Wrote:(June 10, 2015 at 8:27 am)SteveII Wrote: Sure, evolution happens. Does it go all the way back to 1 organism? No one knows...and therefore is a theory.
See, this is exactly what I mean: you do not know what evolution is. Evolution is an explanation of the diversity of biological life, taking into account the genetic mutations that occur at every stage of replication; common ancestry is an inference made due to numerous observations of how our genes work, and how genetics and phylogeny recapitulate in every case. Does all life descend from a common ancestor? Yes, as far as we can tell, since all of the evidence points to this. We may not know for certain, but on the balance of probability, all of what we currently know points to this.
And here it the crux of the matter. "All we know points to this". Someone could argue that the information contained in the "all" is insufficient to come to the massive extrapolated conclusions that it does. I DO NOT want to argue evolution and this study and that. The more honest of you keep admitting it is not a certainty. Until it move much further down the path of certainly (how far, I realize, is subjective) your basis for mocking people who doubt it's extrapolated conclusions seems unfounded.