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Actually, I also have a degree in Electrical Engineering and took similar courses. Most of that is directly testable, though, unlike speciation. When you make the assumption that all life started with a singularity, something that must have happened millions of years ago, and left no physical trail, you need at least some discipline in your thinking.

Except that the physical leftovers are everywhere, you just have trained yourself not to see the evidence for them. Funny how that works, innit? You have willed yourself not to see the evidence, and then you start creating simplified erroneous logical constructions to bolster your worldview. It doesn't work that way.

Actually I am very solidly grounded in reality. Its the singularity of life folks that are out in spaceland.

As someone with a background in Astrophysics, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you don't quite appreciate just how long millions or billions of years REALLY is, and what happens in a billion years, or two billion, or three billion years. Educate yourself, PLEASE!

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Except that the physical leftovers are everywhere, you just have trained yourself not to see the evidence for them. Funny how that works, innit? You have willed yourself not to see the evidence, and then you start creating simplified erroneous logical constructions to bolster your worldview. It doesn't work that way. There is no evidence that traces all life back to a singularity. Not in the fossil evidence or the genetic evidence. Even if you accept all the fossil and genetic evidence you cannot get back to a singularity.

As someone with a background in Astrophysics, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you don't quite appreciate just how long millions or billions of years REALLY is, and what happens in a billion years, or two billion, or three billion years. Educate yourself, PLEASE!

Not sure what this has to do with anything, but I have seen the calc of the age of the Universe and that is unverifiable as well. Having spent some time learning how radiometric dating works and the assumptions behind it, the process does not inspire a high degree of confidence. It may be better suited for relative rather than absolute dating.