[Quark2005]

The moment you presuppose life and start from there, to avoid an intelligent creator, you must explain how that life came into being. You try to avoid this corundum by stating that the theory doesn't need to address that.

1) Do you have factual information about who your great grandparents were?

2) Do you have a complete understanding of the origins of all life on earth?

3) Do you likewise think it's possible that we know something about the ancestry of life on earth without knowing everything about how it originated?

This ain't too hard to grasp, folks.

[William Terrell]

Do you likewise think it's possible that we know something about the ancestry of life on earth without knowing everything about how it originated?

No, but you have to have sufficient evidence that doesn't admit of more than one interpretation. The fossil record should be be composed almost entirely of transitional forms. It isn't.

Every single bit of evidence you have requires a presupposition of trans-species evolution.

You have to know something for sure, and you don't.