OK. Now at least we're making headway here! I don't recall anyone claiming to "know" what was out there
BEFORE this likely event, but obviously
something was, even if your God assembled the unassembled sub-atomic particle Legoâ„¢ set that it perhaps was.
But nonetheless,
some sort of formative event, "catastrophic" if we want to use an insufficient English word (because, in fact, it was more accurately "
formative", "
creative" or
coagulative")
did indeed happen, with the resulting hard technical evidence now being accurately measured and built into an ever-more-believable model.
This
versus the biblical verison, all fairy-tale-like ,with happy dancing unicorns and a pair of pure white hominids, a talking snake and a really bad apple. Individuals that did not evolve, and thus all of us should be clones with no genetic differences or, better yet, defects...
All of this was,
oh my god, it was all SO FRICKING OBVIOUS aimed at a vastly
technically illiterate peonry, that to think
otherwise, that Noah built an Ark, that the animals, all 1500+ types of them (
) [ignoring for now the 100M+ species we now know to now be on, or to have once inhabited this earth, times about 100 of each to guarantee any possibility of reproductive success... YIKES... that's a lot of individuals to house or keep in your massive fresh and salt-water aquaria, Mr. Noah!
HowdGjahDoIttt??] crowded on for a nice warm smooth 18 month sea voyage/deluge, with spiffy aperitifs served each day promptly @ 4:00pm...
"Tea time on the Ark, as it were ewlde chep!";
...and all the other obviously
wildly mis-informed stuff, Wow! That's just
total purposeful silliness, and for a supposedly informed new-age 21st century person, one who has at the very least seen at the very least the end of their Grade 6 education, they should have turfed that sort of mythology out their intellectual window many years ago.
And yet... persist they do, right down to
actually believing (My God!) stories of angels hanging mirrors out in space (i.e.: the sun!) to make God's heavenly light shine down lovingly upon us all!
Blah blah blah.
Well, sorry guys. 1) some sort of formative event
did indeed happen. Yup! Either by God
(highly unlikely, and unsupported by any residual evidence, and as well, HE has NEVER shown His face before or since...), or by some now-being-considered but increasingly evidence-supported and
oh btw,
logical, alternate event horizon formats.
2) As a result of this event, forgetting how it happened for a moment, we've also had the resulting creation of replicatable molecules in the form of precursors to RNA, then RNA, then DNA. This is
not technically "unlikely" as the braying apologists love to snearingly yowl, since some Brit scientists have achieved it for the most part, and then of course there's Dr. Venter's work, which I won't discuss here.
Then we saw growing
bio-logical complexity as a direct result of DNA's abilities, which has so
obviously and
observably resulted in Evolution, ergo: us. Nope; sorry to tell you, we're not "
better," "
greater" or in any Godly image. Just little old primate-based us, now slowly and genetically
en-route (yes, as "
transitionals"! missing links, as it were...) to whatever later genetic format and destiny we'll arrive at. This is all vedry easily shown now, via the inescapable fact of DNA genome mapping. And "naturally" prompted on by the
utterly inescapable logic of interaction with our environment (
that which we don't now modify of course...) .
This is all so very easily shown now that to outright
deny it is to deny, well, that you or I are even here at this moment. Be my guest; see if anyone believes that one!