Posted: Oct 18, 2018 9:15 pm
scherado wrote:Rumraket wrote:scherado wrote:When I'm asked the question, "Do you think humans share a common ancestor with gorillas...?, I'm reminded that several more fundamental questions need to be answered with respect to the mechanism of inheritance. Here I refer to the well-known method of the propagation of genes as "mechanism of inheritance." Obviously.
So what do you think is missing from what we know about the propagation of genes in order to be able infer the common descent of humans and gorillas? ...
Sorry for the delay.
What I meant by, "more fundamental questions," is this: We have a fine understanding of inheritance mechanism(s), but, the question remains, how the bleep did such a mechanism come into existence, that is, what is the origin?
I don't know but that is completely irrelevant to the question of common ancestry. We are not required to know how life originated to understand how, for example, gorillas and humans evolved from a common ancestor.
I don't need to know how life originated to understand how me and my cousin share common descent. The same is true for humans in general and our primate cousins such as gorillas.
scherado wrote: I know that there are theories or explanations, though I don't buy them, I'm not persuaded. I think it's nonsense. Perhaps, you could explain?
I don't pretend to know how life originated, and I don't see it's relevance to whether primates share common ancestry. They do, and we know this beyond all reasonable doubt.