Originally Posted by Fellowship
Who is to say for example that all life originated from a common ancestor?
No one. Evolution does not address this question. If you were taught that the origin of life or of evolutionary lines is part of what evolution is about, then you had very poor teachers, or you had a very poor understanding of what was taught to you.
What if there were several ancestors for example I would wonder.
Not only is this possible, but it's likely
, and any evoluionary scientist worth his salt would tell you that.
I never got answers to good questions from college professors...
Either they were piss poor professors, or you had already shown a propensity for not listening anyway by that time, so they didn't think it was worth trying to explain to someone who wouldn't listen.
...but the dogma and script of Darwins evolution continued from the professors etc.
And so did the solid science. The fact that you evidently missed it is the basis for my conclusion that you ignored it. There is plenty of solid science there.
These teachers and professors would argue that the fossil record somehow indicates evidence of evolution explaining our rise and added complexity over the years. *I disagree completely.
Well no shit, Sherlock. You don't believe fossil dating methods are solid science. Unless you can recognize dating of the first mammals was well before dating of the first hominids, you wouldn't have any basis for understanding that one came well before the other. It would be like trying to understand mathematics while claiming that the number seven doesn't exist.
I in fact see when looking at the fossil record that life arose abruptly and completely. *From simple organisms such as trilobites all the way to complex beings like us Humans.
The earliest trilobite fossils have been dated at over 500 million years old. The earliest hominids have been dated at 14 million years old. What don't you understand about that? Oh yeah, isotope dating is bunk, too...
Scientists must have made it all up just to support the evolutionary 'lie'.
What I do not see from the fossil record that evolution proposes one to accept are examples of "missing links" from one species transition and generation or evolution to another species.
There are plenty of links. When one gets filled, creationists demand another two in between those three. It never stops. I believe BR posted a perfect cartoon illustrating this phenomenon.
Just not there and so many of the examples in the textbooks over the decades are known frauds.
And it was taught to you that they were frauds. A few frauds in a theory doesn't translate into a flawed theory. Imagine if you applied that reasoning to Christianity!
So I do not believe the fossil record indicates evolution took place over the years and years. *In fact I and others who dare have a different take see the fossil record indicating that life came about rather abruptly.
As I've said, there has been much science that you were either taught by extremely incompetent professors and teachers, or you have closed your mind to that science before you even started.
I have studied this matter for decades now and am simply not on board that evolution explains origins and the diverse kingdoms of plants and animals etc.
One problem is that you are not paying attention to the fact that evolution explains the origin of species, not the origin of life, which is a completely separate topic.
I do know that natural selection takes place but this in my view does not equal evolution as a means of origins. *The lie [you can call it a mistake if that's what you believe, but to call it a lie implies intent. Is that really what you believe?] in the theory of evolution is the notion that natural selection is the same thing as evolution.
This is not the claim by any evolutionist. Another failed understanding on your part.
I think it is clear that natural selection is a very specific idea which is true.
Why? Is it because you can observe it?
But natural selection does not explain the origins of species.
No, it doesn't. Mutation, sudden environmental change, migration, and many other factors all combine to explain speciation.