Why are Animals Similar?

Does the similarity between animals indicate evolution from a common ancestor or design by the same Creator to live in the same environment? www.DoesGodExist.TV

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[CKtheFat]

I understand the guy's argument, but it doesn't do a thing to say evolution is is a worse model. Given the other evidence for evolution and lack of evidence for intelligent design, there's not really much sway here.

[PowerVine]

I have listened to this video again and I can't hear him say that evolution is a worse model. I can't even hear him mention evolution.

[UltraSWG]

The same retroviral DNA sequences appear in the same relative places in the DNA of both human beings and primates. There isn't the faintest probability that such sequences could have been inserted on two separate occasions by two of the same species of retroviruses and wound up in the same relative places of the DNA of both man and primates. So, man and primates evolved from the same distant DNA stock into which a retrovirus inserted its DNA long ago, or, the Designer is pulling a con game.

[DayfallKat]

"radioactivity is winding down."

And? The Sun is winding down also.

"Grass and leaves are abundant and more are growing every day."

Yeah, and so would be the silicon lifeforms I mentioned. What is your point?

"What would be the point of living in molten Lava?"

That same point as breathing air I guess.

"Pompeii worm"

Still a worm. Still evolved.

[PowerVine]

What would be the reason for life forms to eat radioactive materials? Radioactive materials are rare and radioactivity is winding down. Grass and leaves are abundant and more are growing every day. What would be the point of living in molten Lava? On the other hand, God did create extremophiles like the Pompeii worm which lives in the extreme heat of hydrothermal ocean vents and radioresistant extremophiles which live in radioactive environments. Perhaps not all animals are similar after all.

[DayfallKat]

So a silicon based life form that ingests radioactive materials could not exist on earth? Could your god not create an animal that lives in molten lava?

Ok, you do know there are other environments? Why don't we see herds of animals roaming across Mars? Lunar roaches?

If your god created everything, then he has every opportunity to make different animals.

Why are animals similar? Because they evolved from a common ancestor.

[PowerVine]

They eat the same foods because they live in the same environment (the earth) where those same foods exist. Humans and animals would not be able to live together if we did not breathe the same air, drink the same water, and eat the same foods.

[DayfallKat]

No. They eat the same foods because they are similar. You are confusing cause and effect.

If we assume a god exists then animals must NOT be similar. The god could make animals eat what ever he felt like.

Assuming evolution, then yes, they must be similar relative to ancestry.

[PowerVine]

You are over-simplifying the point. Animals must also be similar to humans because they eat many of the same foods we do and because they must live in the same environment we live in.

[ollonelycat]

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[DayfallKat]

So the argument made in this video is that God could not have made animals out out of different materials because then we could not eat them?

I can only suppose the argument continues with ... "and so God exists because we can eat meat."