Question | Answer From: |
| Darwinism | Creationism/ID | Cosmic Ancestry |
| Origin of life? | chance (1) | God/unspecified
intelligence (1) | undemonstrated (2) |
| Source of life? | the cosmos |
| Origin of genetic programs? | chance (1) | God/unspecified
intelligence (1) | undemonstrated (2) |
| Source of genetic programs? | the cosmos |
| Can mutation and natural selection produce microevolution? | yes (1) | maybe/yes | yes |
| Can mutation and natural selection produce sustained macroevolutionary progress? | no | only with HGT (3) |
| Can new genetic programs emerge suddenly? | no | ?/? | yes, arriving by HGT |
| Has life inhabited Earth for more than three billion years? | yes | no/yes | yes |
| Did higher life forms descend from lower ones? | yes | no/maybe, but how? | yes with HGT (3) |
| Does apparent sustained macroevolutionary progress require ongoing miracles? | yes! (4) | yes/yes? | no. it's actually development (7) |
| What existed before the standard big bang? (5) | nothing | God | something |
| Was there life before the standard big bang? (5) | no | no | yes |
| What caused the material world to exist? | the big bang | God | science cannot answer (6) |
| What caused life to exist? | chance | God/unspecified
intelligence | science has no answer (6) |
(1) The answering philosophy treats these two questions as the same question.
(2) These origins are assumed events wthout supporting evidence or logical grounding (except for the big bang.)
(3) HGT = Horizontal [or Lateral] Gene [or DNA or RNA] Transfer.
(4) The superastronomical unlikelihoods that darwinian evolution must overcome are effectively miracles.
(5) "The standard big bang" is thought to have created everything at once ~13.8 billion years ago.
(6) "Some Things Are Simply Given" [pdf | docx] by Brig Klyce, v 106, "Advances in Genetics," Oct 2020.
(7) Evolution or Development?
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