I want to discuss with Faith my and her understanding of evolution. However, we don't want it to be a Great Debate because we want expert input from time to time, if any is available. Her science is execrable and mine is just bad.
We want to concentrate on the proofs of evolution, which I consider very substantial. Obviously, Faith disagrees.
Over a hundred years ago, people did these digs and found a pattern emerging. The further down you dug, the simpler the organism was (in the form of fossils). This didn't just happen most of the time. It was always the case, if the ground was undisturbed.
They figured deeper meant older. Later on they found a way to date stuff, which confirmed that deeper indeed meant older, and these things were, it turned out, very old indeed. They found some strange fossils which looked like a cross between one kind of animal and another. They found a lot of these.
As time passed, they built up a "family tree" of life based on physical characteristics.
Years later, along came DNA analysis. So they started analyzing the DNA of various species, and it turned out that the DNA analysis matched the "family tree" they had built up years before. It did not match all the time precisely, of course, but the match overall was very good.
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