Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
This thread is about Darwinian evolution, not evolution in general.So to recap your false claims, the evidence for evolutionary biology has been confirmed. You choose to ignore the vast evidence for evolutionary processes and change over time in biological organisms. You wish to somehow denigrate the conceptual and factual status of biological evolution, and yet can not do so using denial and sidestepping.
I did not dispute the common descent idea. I’m merely asked for some details about it. I don’t know why that seems to frighten and anger people.The fact is, common descent predicts a pattern of nested hierarchy , or groups within groups. Consistent with the prediction, we see those arrangement in unique, consistent, well-defined hierarchies, the so-called tree of life. Fossil animals fit in the same hierarchical tree of life. We find cases of transitional forms in the fossil record.
I’ll try again:
Did all life on earth descend from a single common ancestor or from several common ancestors? Provide evidence for either idea. I don’t know is a completely acceptable answer here.
Describe the process by which the single, or the several common ancestors evolved from nonliving material?