The fossil evidence is not as overwhelming as people have been led to believe. Actually the fossil record is quite poor by science's own admission. Common ancestry is likewise not well supported IMO. Did you know that common ancestors are an 'assumption' because no one can ever tell you what they were....they are the infamous.....the missing links......and they are all still missing.
Yes, I am aware of the difference...and I am also aware that adaptation is the basis for belief in organic evolution....as if one naturally expands to explain the other (like if a little is good, a lot must be better).....that is where I would disagree with you. Abiogenesis, as a science, is almost completely divorced from evolution for obvious reasons IMO. There is no real basis for abiogenesis and no scientist has yet been able to duplicate what they assume was a fluke in their special organic "soup". How life changed is so easily explained (with a liberal amount of imagination) than trying to explain how life happened. You can pretend that its an unrelated question.....
but the two go hand in hand. If you can't explain how life began, what is the point of trying to imagine how it changed over time?
There is substantiated evidence for adaptation in many species....but there is NO evidence that one species can eventually become another through the minor changes of the adaptive process....e.g. I cannot accept that whales were once four legged furry land dwellers the size of a dog......and no stretch of my imagination could take me there, just because science suggests that it "might" be true. What they present is a chain with no links.....can it be a chain then?
This is where evolution makes its assumptions and backs them up with supposition. I don't believe what science assumes but cannot prove. Its a godless theory and it makes no sense to me as a believer in the power of the Creator.
If we are all made by this same Creator, out of the same basic 'building' materials, then would it not stand to reason that the materials would be similar....and the engineering of skeletal structures, with movement capabilities involving an amazing array of muscles, and tendons to facilitate that for every creature, requires an engineer? What about other functions of various bodies to take in oxygen through lungs or gills....and then there are eyes....so many different kinds of eyes and modes of vision.....etc, would you expect to see such design without an intelligent designer?
I can't.
Everything in nature conforms to a proven standard.....much like buildings do, and if they don't, the building or life form deteriorates and fails. This is why buildings display compliance to certain rules of engineering and use of materials because they are proven to be successful by testing. And we accept this because we discovered what was in nature all along. Man has invented nothing really....he has just copied what is already in existence....but gives no credit to the originator of the design.
Are you kidding me?
The fossil evidence provides no concrete support for CD. Just the opposite, in fact. Especially as more are discovered from the Cambrian Era, & deeper into the Ediacaran.
"Proving"? No way.
And DNA, the common thread of all life, w/ it's complex computer-like code, reinforces the idea that one intelligent Master Programmer was / is behind all it's diverse forms... "according to their kinds" .... In all phyla of Plantae, Animalia, and Archaea.
"The fossil record isn't the only evidence in support of evolution. There is other collaborating evidence, such as overwhelming genetic evidence of common ancestry between humans and other great ape species. ...
Specific examples from comparative physiology and biochemistry:
Chromosome 2 in humans
Main article: Chromosome 2 (human)
Further information: Chimpanzee Genome Project § Genes of the Chromosome 2 fusion site
Figure 1b: Fusion of ancestral chromosomes left distinctive remnants of telomeres, and a vestigial centromere
Evidence for the evolution of Homo sapiens from a common ancestor with chimpanzees is found in the number of chromosomes in humans as compared to all other members of Hominidae. All hominidae have 24 pairs of chromosomes, except humans, who have only 23 pairs. Human chromosome 2 is a result of an end-to-end fusion of two ancestral chromosomes.
The evidence for this includes:
The correspondence of chromosome 2 to two ape chromosomes. The closest human relative, the common chimpanzee, has near-identical DNA sequences to human chromosome 2, but they are found in two separate chromosomes. The same is true of the more distant gorilla and orangutan.
The presence of a vestigial centromere. Normally a chromosome has just one centromere, but in chromosome 2 there are remnants of a second centromere.
The presence of vestigial telomeres. These are normally found only at the ends of a chromosome, but in chromosome 2 there are additional telomere sequences in the middle.
Chromosome 2 thus presents strong evidence in favour of the common descent of humans and other apes. According to J. W. Ijdo, "We conclude that the locus cloned in cosmids c8.1 and c29B is the relic of an ancient telomere-telomere fusion and marks the point at which two ancestral ape chromosomes fused to give rise to human chromosome 2."
Figure 1b: Fusion of ancestral chromosomes left distinctive remnants of telomeres, and a vestigial centromere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_o...on_descent
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Endogenous retroviruses (or ERVs) are remnant sequences in the genome left from ancient viral infections in an organism. The retroviruses (or virogenes) are always
passed on to the next generation of that organism that received the infection. This leaves the virogene left in the genome. Because this event is rare and random, finding identical chromosomal positions of a virogene in two different species suggests common ancestry. Cats (
Felidae) present a notable instance of virogene sequences demonstrating common descent. The standard phylogenetic tree for Felidae have smaller cats (
Felis chaus,
Felis silvestris,
Felis nigripes, and
Felis catus) diverging from larger cats such as the subfamily
Pantherinae and other
carnivores. The fact that small cats have an ERV where the larger cats do not suggests that the gene was inserted into the ancestor of the small cats after the larger cats had diverged. Another example of this is with humans and chimps. Humans contain numerous ERVs that comprise a considerable percentage of the genome. Sources vary, but 1% to 8% has been proposed. Humans and chimps share seven different occurrences of virogenes, while all primates share similar retroviruses congruent with phylogeny."