That's the right way to think about it. Let me call your attention to a post by someone else on another thread which documents how science is pushing ahead in exploring the implications of and evidence for evolution and not stopping to wait for any "you can't make me see" element of society to catch up. Most of the mantras frequently chanted on these threads--for example, "Evolution can't create new information"--are demonstrated as false in that post.
It will sink without a ripple and the same people will be back tomorrow chanting the same mantras.
"Evolution can't create new information--are demonstrated as false in that post."
Most of the information presented there is over my head. I read it, but I did not understand a lot of what I read.
Please clarify one thing about common ancestry. Is the proposition of evolution that all life evolved from ONE SINGLE ORGANISM, or is the proposition that all life evolved from ONE single TYPE of organism?
In other words, is the post claiming that the environment that gave rise to the first living thing, only produce ONE instance of that living thing, OR MANY instances of that ONE FORM?
I will answer your other post separately.