gbrooks9
June 1, 2018, 10:42pm
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Let me have a second shot at this, from a different angle.
May I assume that we, at least, are attacking this as if there is a God, whatever his role may or may not be?
Both Vincent and Joshua deny the possibility of the evolutionary process to operate separately on two separate worlds to produce interbreeding species. And that’s obvious, because interbreeding is the usual definition of one species, and how could one species be produced in two entirely independent galaxies?
I’d suggest that even if, per impossibile, the two worlds were identical twin worlds in the initial conditions, the natural processes we know would surely have at least enough contingency to prevent convergence on an interbreeding species so long into the tree of life - the process is simply not that precise: our “accidental” chromosome fusion alone would render fertile (if any) offspring impossible.
A little thought shows that, were God to wish evolution to produce that situation in the two worlds using natural…
I should point out that @jongarvey has even created a Sci Fi scenario along these lines … does God design all of human evolution … to get exactly what he wants?
My answer? Of course he does.