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emiliya Yes, there is a lot of "You didn't see it happen" and "God works in mysterious ways"...but would you consider that a convincing argument to the scientifically literate?
What does a paternity test show? It shows whether or not someone is the direct offspring of a man by looking at how closely their genes match up.
Does the creationist understand that this is exactly the same technique used to show how closely other animals are related?
So we've got dolphins and sharks both living in the same environment and both doing pretty similar things and both sharing a lot of physical characteristics as a result....but their genes show us that the dolphin is much more closely related to a deer than it is to any shark.
Why? Well the creationists answer must be "Maybe God wanted to do it that way" which has no explanatory or predictive power.
So the question is, since we observe that genes can show us to what extent two individuals are related...at what point do genes stop showing relatedness and start showing a common designer? Where is the cut off and how does one justify it?
