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Originally posted by St. Charles
Why should I trust you? Show me the amoeba I came from?
You can't and you don't have proof. So if you aren't going to show me all the amoeba that my parents came from and my grandparents came from fish or great aunts came from monkeys, then why even bother?
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Try this on for measure:
1) At one point in the Earth's history, there weren't any humans. Now there are.
Question: Where did they come from?
2) At one point in the Earth's history, there were dinosaurs. Now there aren't.
Question: Why didn't everything go extinct with them?
The simple answer to both is that organisms small enough not to need the resources that dinosaurs did, survived. Those small organisms reproduced, migrated, and then spectated. Now there are no more dinosaurs (except for crocodiles), but the evolutionary offspring of those small animals now roam the earth.
Seeing evolution for what it is is as much an exercise in logic as it is in actual science.