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Originally Posted by RonPrice
...Darwin, in his Origin of the Species in 1859 and many other scientists now argue that man was there--in potential--right at the start of the first DNA which now is found in Greenland and in the Pilbara in Australia at approximately 3.8 billion ya. ...
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This is pure fabricated nonsense.
The existence of DNA, indeed the very process of genetic heritance, was unknown to Darwin and to all other scientists in 1859. In fact, the initial clues as to genetic heritance weren't discovered until half a century later.
Two. We have fossils from Greenland and Australia that are 3 BYr old or more, but we do NOT have any DNA that old. The oldest DNA I have heard of is far, far less than 1 million years old. DNA decays very quickly under all but the most extreme conditions of intense cold.
Three. The concept that man was "there, in potential" at some early stage of life on this planet is both true and meaningless.
It's also true and meaningless for all other existing animals.
It's also true and meaningless for an infinite number of non-existent animals that never lived.
It's true and meaningless for any plant or animal you can imagine.
They ALL could be said to have been "there, in potential" to one degree or another.
It's a
trivial and meaningless statement.
Because it is trivially true for any and all organisms, whether they ever lived or not.
