<<What is disputed, is UCD. Universal Common Descent. That is, can all life in our biosphere, be traced back to a common ancestor?>>
There seems no logical necessity for it. If life can come out of non-living chemicals, then it can do so more than once or in more than one location. Not just different solar systems or planets but perhaps in different parts of the World.
<<What is disputed, is UCD. Universal Common Descent. That is, can all life in our biosphere, be traced back to a common ancestor?>>
There seems no logical necessity for it. If life can come out of non-living chemicals, then it can do so more than once or in more than one location. Not just different solar systems or planets but perhaps in different parts of the World.
In theory, yes.
Two issues with that though.
As far as we are aware, all life in Earth has the same genetic “code.” Which suggests a common ancestry. (Or arguably a common designer.)
Second, if a new organism spontaneously appeared in a pre-existing biosphere, even a microbe, it would find itself unprepared for this predatory environment. And be quickly eaten by something bigger. As it has not had time to evolve a survival strategy.
The overwhelming majority of Christians do not take the Bible to be authoritative. Certainly not in the Church of England. That's maybe more something for Methodists and protestants. There can be no proper way to interpret "Holy scripture". Yes, maybe among the extremely uneducated, they will ask for guidance if they're reading the Bible. Obviously, the overwhelming majority of Christians no longer believe in creationism, Adam and Eve and other assorted fairy tales. Many may do ... again, the uneducated ones in general.
Well, on the whole it's a good step forward but it's a shame they had to go completely overboard to to convince the credulous that they are not emissiaries of the Devil. Good for them, nevertheless.