[Alamo-Girl]

I very strongly agree that the question of where the third human came from is theological and not science.

The closest we came to the issue was on your Plato thread where tortoise raised his new fallacy of quantizing the continuum. The issue there was similar, for a species to propagate there would need to be more than one member.

And, as I recall, tortoise (an excellent mathematician) was pointing out the weakness of abiogenesis theory in that it would require a much large phenomena than a single common ancestor (by the numbers) to survive a prebiotic environment. But he was also arguing against himself by saying via this new fallacy that any point (quantization) in the continuum of the tree of life would be material to identify as the moment species B is no longer a member of species A.

[Alamo-Girl]

My bad.

But he was also arguing against himself by saying via this new fallacy that any point (quantization) in the continuum of the tree of life would be material to identify as the moment species B is no longer a member of species A.

should be:

But he was also arguing against himself by saying via this new fallacy that it is an error to construe that any point (quantization) in the continuum of the tree of life would be material to identify as the moment species B is no longer a member of species A.

[betty boop]

And, as I recall, tortoise (an excellent mathematician) was pointing out the weakness of abiogenesis theory in that it would require a much large[r] phenomena than a single common ancestor (by the numbers) to survive a prebiotic environment. But he was also arguing against himself by saying via this new fallacy that [it is an error to construe] any point (quantization) in the continuum of the tree of life would be material to identify as the moment species B is no longer a member of species A.

I wish he was still around. Tortoise, as you say an excellent mathematician, was a fine, respectful correspondent from whom one could learn much. He was never (according to my recollection) a bomb-thrower.

Thank you so much, dearest sister in Christ, for your very kind words!