How did gopers snakes birds reptiles ants 1 million different beatles lion bears wolves octopus eel whales monkeys dinosaurs trilobite's fox turkey trees grass weed cows come from then?The first things you mention are logical but my opinion is that we really don't know enough about the past to make such assumptions.Didn't the plants have to be here first to create oxygen for us to breath? We know the first life didnt breath oxygen and humans couldn't have lived on earth when live started. That wasn't for a billion years. Trilobite's and dinosaurs ruled before us.No one has any proof that life hasn't been around as long as non life. How do we know time had a beginning?That's just argument from ignorance... a specifically, and intentionally cultivated ignorance at that.My proof is that nothing that isn't already alive has ever produced something living. If you can show me where that happened then I will take back my statements. That's all I ask. Simple enough right?No. I'm asking you to provide the "proof" you hold as a requirement for someone to submit an assertion as "fact."
I take it then you do not foolishly submit "facts without proof."
Correct?
Submit the proof for this "fact" that you have foolishly submitted.
Do it now, Cupcake.
I'm making no such assumption. I'm claiming no such "knowledge."
I'm just following the evidence. Just like other rational folk, my assertions are expressions of qualified certainty based upon applying valid logic to verifiable evidence.
What are you proposing I should do instead? Apply superstition, perhaps?
But I'm not requiring any of that from you.
I don't see the problem you're having with adhereing to your very own criteria for judging the validity of "facts."
Tell me about it, Pumpkin.
It is certainly no kind of proof.
If you're going to be consistent, Abraham Lincoln's great grandmother "never happened" because you never saw her. Correct?
Life got it's start somewhere, somehow, at some time... and before then there was no life. Logic dictates that life arose from non-life. The evidence supporting that logical conclusion is the fact that all life is composed of, sustained by, and necessarily contingent upon what is not alive.
So Pumpkin, I'm not going to show you Honest Abe's great grandmother to "prove" that she existed, nor will I show you life springing forth from non-living matter to "prove" that it happened... it would be meaningless to the superstitious, and uneccessary for the rational.
And we know men came from monkeys, once crawled on all 4s and breathed water. And we are related to all other living things.
I don't believe the second part at all.
What's your theory? How is it we share the same DNA under a microscope?