How is the DNA evidence for common descent different from DNA evidence used to establish paternity in courtrooms?
As for time, do you want to get deconstructionist on me? I can accept the possibility that God might have a different perspective on time, but I'm asking from our perspective.
Give me an alternative for natural selection -- one that has been observed and which is an ongoing process.
The simplest difference is this: The former attempts to stretch beyond observable history. The latter, by and large, remains within bounds of the same.
As for time, do you want to get deconstructionist on me?
No. I want to know how much accuracy is satisfactory to your "scientific" sense. Can you answer?
Give me an alternative for natural selection . . .
Like a typical Democrat, Gimmee, gimmee, gimmee. I have been told not to cast pearls before swine, but I'll indulge anyway. Just bear in mind my only debt to you is love, and I cannot pay that debt.
One alternative is planned selection. One can just as easily attribute the facts of history to God's eternal plan as one can attribute them to an unpredictable force. Yes, unpredictable. Natural selection is a fabrication of ex post facto occurrences. In those cases where varieties are seen within species it is no less reasonable to assume God planned it thus (as life carries out its course under the laws of nature).
But I freely take it for granted that, due to its complexity, order, and magnitude the earth and its creatures were created, and are sustained, by God. Just like I take for granted that, when I wake up tomorrow morning, God's law of gravity will still be at work in my town.
---Every time the earth rotates on its axis the Theory of Evolution is put to the test. The Theory of Evolution doesn't explain much. It's just a lazy, handy construct that does not go beyond history. Other discplines of science that ignore the Theory of Evolution are bound to be more beneficial where true learning and progress are concerned.---
The details of how God does all this . . . that is what science is all about. I truly enjoy hearing of the mathemathecal and physical explanations which, in the end point right back to God.
But what a burden to bear for those who attribute the variety of species and their ongoing process to nothing more than a concoction of unforeseen, unguided processes. Their Theory of Evolution is worthy of the highest ridicule, and their persons are worthy of the deepest pity. It doesn't add up at all. It's more fantistic than the wildest hocus pocus. Talk about POOFism! Talk about God of the Gaps! Evolution needs some kind of god to bridge its gaps.