front loading: did evos get it backwards

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I am saying in my version of creation every living creature in the original creation was formed from the earth.

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They were full grown creatures capable of reproduction.

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That would mean we have a common place of origin.

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The elements in the living creatures are contained in the earth.

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Would that not make them related.

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As a material cause, yes. As an ancestral cause, no.You're arguing on a chemical level, which has no bearing on the biological subject of evolution.

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Actually it does. First off, chemistry plays a significant role in DNA as well as physics. Secondly, the idea he's presenting is that commonalities can be explained by the fact creatures were created from the same source, the earth, rather than evolving from a theoritical (almost mythical) common ancestor.

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Of course it does, but when you speak of chemistry totally divorced from biology as ICANT did, it doesn't make much sense. I really can't see the central point that she's trying to make.