So, for example, we lost all the history of the first steam engines, they wouldn't exist?
Ther is quite a difference between knowing how a process works and knowing how the first instance of that process came to be. The process of evolution is ongoing, whereas the first cells left no fossils.
Well, you could make that assertion; I wouldn't.
Ther is quite a difference between knowing how a process works and knowing how the first instance of that process came to be. The process of evolution is ongoing, whereas the first cells left no fossils.
There is also quite a difference between not being able to explain a process and a process that is an impossibility. If you have no problem with an impossibility as a necessary condition for the same theory your love and cherish so much, then I don't see what we further have to discuss. Do you?