@ghost-of-a-duke said
I repeat, when someone speaks of things as 'actual events', such as humanity coming into existence with the creation of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, then that is a truth claim that I will hold up to scientific scrutiny.
I class claims of 'actual events' as truth claims. If someone instead takes the non-literalist view, then fair enough.
Well the creation story about life's beginning are supernatural events, and you are here claiming it can be shown to be a natural event. I've asked a few points that if it were a natural event it should be very clearly understood. Your response, smart people don't believe it doesn't really inspire me. It almost seems that you have any idea how to address my questions.
If we are going to say Adam and Eve must be looked at as if were NOT a supernatural event we, must skip past abiogenesis ignoring all of it's issues all the way to, when life I assume was all asexual just before it was about to change by an undirected process. Some how an asexual life will manage to split into male and female sexes! (I don't believe gender was a real issue back then) After that split into sexes those lives still thrive!
I'm assuming you must have a remarkable mountain of scientific evidence that backs this up in an iron clad way. I saw something not to long ago not sure if this is really true or not, I do have some very strong doubts, oh well here we go, "Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Proof" so your claim I assume has extraordinary proof it did occur.
I only have a couple of questions that were not answered earlier. I'm not sure if you jumped on the shoulders of giants before or after I asked these.
"Are you suggesting that evolution had a single sex creature from which everything else came, and that through evolution managed to split into two different compatible sexes, AND THEN at the very start of this split, both sexes knew what to do for sex to continue the species, they didn't have to figure it out, and they wanted to as well? (Please note: the knowing how, wanting to, are also difficult questions! They would not have had either instinct or history to draw on)
How did all life in two sexes manage to stay compatible throughout all time? Are you asking me to buy into a series of miracles over time with each mutation affecting the males, and keeping the female compatible with each generation.
It is possible I'm not describing your view on how this occurred over and over again, please show me the proper argument we should be looking at instead of the one I presented just now."