[js1138]

If you'd care to read I considered that possibility and excluded that discussion from this topic.

You can't make this exclusion if you are going to make broad statements about all your genes existing in your parents. Obviously if such a "fact" were true, evolution would be impossible, or the mechanisms quite different from what are currently theorized.

Your exclusion is like saying, "excluding the oceans, lakes and rivers, earth is a rather dry place".

[AndrewC]

You can't make this exclusion if you are going to make broad statements about all your genes existing in your parents.

I certainly can. Scientists do it all of the time. Ever hear of a perfect gas? It is a starting point. Now answer the cross-species gene question and tell me how its survivability is tied to the reproduction of an individual or even a species.