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Comparing Darwinism, Creationism/ID and Cosmic Ancestry What'sNEW

Question
Answer From:
DarwinismCreationism/IDCosmic Ancestry
Origin of life?chance (1)God/unspecified
intelligence (1)
undemonstrated (2)
Source of life?the cosmos
Origin of genetic programs for higher life forms?chance (1)God/unspecified
intelligence (1)
undemonstrated (2)
Source of genetic programs for higher life forms?the cosmos
Can mutation and natural selection produce microevolution?yes (1)maybe/yesyes
Can mutation and natural selection produce macroevolutionary progress?no/limitedonly with HGT (3)
Has life inhabited Earth for more than 3 billion years?yesmaybe/yesyes
Did higher life forms descend from lower ones?yesno/maybeyes with HGT (3)
What existed before the big bang?nothingGodsomething
Was there life before the big bang?nonoyes
Does macroevolutionary progress require ongoing miracles?yes! (4)yes/yes?no
What caused the cosmos to exist?the big bangGodscience cannot answer
What caused life to exist?chanceGod/unspecified
intelligence
science cannot answer
(1) The answering philosophy treats these two questions as the same question.
(2) The origins of life and genetic programs are assumed events with weak logical grounding and no direct supporting evidence.
(3) HGT = Horizontal Gene Transfer
(4) The superastronomical unlikelihoods that darwinian evolution claims to overcome are effectively miracles.

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5 Jun 2009: The enemy has become more diverse, says anthropologist Eugenie Scott.
7 Jul 2008: The Design Matrix: A Consilience of Clues — a book review with relevant discussion.

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