It's partially in the work of Dr. Francis Crick, one of the co-discoverers of the DNA strand (you'll like him; he's an athiest, too).
According to the Theory of Evolution, all modern everything on earth evolved to their current, super-complex forms from progressively simpler and simpler forms going all the way back to the beginning of life on earth. If you believe this to be a fundamental Truth, then it would be no surprise to you to know that the DNA strand... all of them, in every single animal and plant on earth... has the genetic code of every other animal and plant on earth.
In other words,
our DNA possesses the genetic material for feathers, scales, retractable claws, breathing underwater, echo location, etc. Everything. The DNA in an ant has within it the genetic material of all of that , too. All the DNA on earth has all the traits necessary to rebuild an entire earth flora/fauna menagerie. Since everything on earth evolved from the simplest, single-celled organism, according to the Theory of Evolution, this should not be a surprise.
The problem is that the earliest found traces of earth DNA are the exact same. And so is the DNA within an actual single-celled organism. And so was the DNA found on the organisms that stowed away on the Martian meteorite several years ago and crashed here.
The very first DNA on this planet, had all the genetic code for all the animals and plants that would
EVER BE ON EARTH IN THE FUTURE!!!Let that sh*t sink in before you respond.
Er, No. Just get yourself any simple book on classification of organisms and you'll understand right away why. In fact, just look at any chart of animal phylla (classes of animals) and you'll be able to work out why immediately for yourself.
I can see why you might think that if you've not even skimmed the subject superficially or got the wrong handle on it, but even I , with my limited knowledge of the subject, know that having the same 4 bases (thymine, adenine, guanine and cytosine) is not the same as organising the bases in multifarious combinations to provide all the thousands of different genes, dozens of chromosomes and the structures you've mentioned. It's the combinations, numbers and their mutations that produce individual differences between and within species and make evolution possible.
There is no excuse for not knowing things nowadays: all the information is there at the touch of a button or the flick of a page.
Anyone who has not had a modern education is ignorant, not in the pejorative sense but in the literal sense of the word.
It doesn't pay to comment on things you are ignorant of; it just makes you look ignorant in the pejorative sense.
Religion isn't education in the modern sense, it's the opposite - a lack of.
And speaking of 'modern': we don't speak of 'modern species'. Every extant species is here because it's survived in a form that's successful. If it can succeed no more, well, natural selection soon sorts that out, whether the change in circumstance is as slow as global warming or as immediate as a bloody great meteorite.
And by the way, your Cremo and Thompson are a noted joke whose 'work' is only published by themselves with the help of the ISKON (the Hare Krisnas). It's called vanity publishing.
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