Even if you dismiss the question of God, the question mark remains. Simply the experience of having a subjectivity or consciousness is too mysterious to understand using the mind, since the subjectivity itself is what gives arising to the mind in the first place. You can't pull yourself up by...
I will try to break it down into four points:
1) If the hypothesis of common descent is true, then species that share a common ancestor will have inherited that ancestor's DNA sequence.
2) More closely-related species will have a greater fraction of identical sequence when compared to more...