[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The only evidence you had was that something was dead. No evidence of where it came from or how anything changed, if at all.

You do not know if all of those things are from the Earth at all or if they had been changed by some sort of engineering.

[VadeRetro]

Can't prove we're not all wired into The Matrix, either. However, this level or rejection of physical evidence is not useful in interpreting the world.

[balrog666]

You do not know if all of those things are from the Earth at all or if they had been changed by some sort of engineering.

Gosh, can we rule out magic pixies placing them there? Or spiritual faries pulling them out of your bum? Or The Invisible, Pink Unicorn creating them in an orderly fashion in sync with the Universe aging?

Your "style" of logic is as impressive as a slug running a marathon.

[balrog666]

You do not know if all of those things are from the Earth at all or if they had been changed by some sort of engineering.

Gosh, can we rule out magic pixies placing them there? Or spiritual faries pulling them out of your bum? Or The Invisible, Pink Unicorn creating them in an orderly fashion in sync with the Universe aging?

Your "style" of logic is as impressive as a slug running a marathon.

[Virginia-American]

You do not know if all of those things are from the Earth at all or if they had been changed by some sort of engineering.

OK, we find fossils of horse-like animals in grassland environments. But I should be open to the notion that they're not of the Earth at all. IMO, this is simply silly.

I'll stick with Occam until someone produces evidence of some sort of ET activity or of "engineering".

Neither one is observed in the modern world (until maybe 20 years ago), there are no fossil gene splicers or test tubes or whatever, and as I said, some of the fossil species merge imperceptibly into each other.

In fact, the modern species aren't all that well separated.