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Saw you were a biologist. Would you be ok if I said, "Creationism got life started, but after that, we evolved via random mutations..."? The "equal transit time" is the same as a supernatural force compelling the physical world act in a certain way. It does not exist.


I am a biologist (biochemistry, but close enough). I don’t have a problem with what you wrote.

It’s not the same thing at all, though. We don’t know what “got life started”, and that’s the realm of faith.

This is more like saying that “evolution is due to random mutation”, which is technically wrong, but close enough to get the point across.




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