Where I came from

Trying to stay neutral on controversial subjects is hard when the "other side" insists on denying basic logic and reason.  It is not hard to see that every living thing comes from other living things.  And not just any living thing.  Each living thing comes from a genetic combination from its parents.  Period.  There can be no exception.

Microbes come from microbes of the very same kind of microbe. Every.Single.Time.  Occasionally, there will have been a unexpected change in the genetic material passed on from the parent organism or organisms, but the change never changes, let's say, a virus into a bacterium.  It is the same way all the way up the "food chain" to humans.  Most of the time, though, the changes are predictable if you know enough about the parents.

The key is in a hierarchy among the genes.  Some are dominant and some are waiting to join up with genes that are like them before they make their appearance in the next generation.  These genes are the "recessive" ones.  For example, I have blue eyes though my dad had brown eyes.  My mom has a mix of pigment that showed her dad's blue eyes (giving her "hazel" eyes). Three of the six of their children had blue eyes, demonstrating that our father had recessive genes for making blue eyes (from one of his parents).

I am an amateur genealogist, and I like to try to trace who came before me in the "chain of life."  No matter how far back in history I might go, I find humans.  There was never a time when a non-human mated with a human to make a human.  It is even more strange to consider how two non-human creatures could produce a human.

Starting with myself, I need only go back 20 generations of unique individuals to reach 2,048,576 ancestors.  Though I have some ancestors in parts of Europe, it is no consequence that the estimated population of the primary country of origin (England) in 1417 was somewhere around two million.  It is just the way it is.  It makes sense.  Everyone knows this kind of thing must be true.

But yet, those who hold PhD's in big universities teach that the chain goes back into the "deep" past to allow the rules to have changed along the way.  They say that all living things, including plants, had a common ancestor that very gradually made the rules up as generations piled up over the years.  They say some of the virus-type things produced fungi and bacteria which eventually produced parallel lines of algea and insect-like things.  From these family lines, they say, came every plant and animal that has ever been.

If they are honest, they use qualifiers like "evidently," "probably" and the like.  They step out on a limb and declare that these things "must have" happened.  Who am I to question them?  Perhaps I just have not seen enough evidence.  Surely there are billions of transitional fossils to prove that the rules have changed over the years.  Well, aren't there?

So What Do I Know?

Biological lifeforms all come from parents. There is no known exception.

Natural laws of propagation assure that the next generation will pass traits on to the next.