Well my personal opinion is that “I don’t know” either way. Every elegant explanation as to why/how things happen has its flaws so to me it’s silly to “play sports” with them and pick teams.
I wasn’t there to see it 😛
Take away words like impossible, and some of the hyperbole about “worried about losing their careers ” and you would get a Like or agreement from me. I don’t think Evolutionary theory as it stands is perfect by any means, and the field of biology just keeps plugging along dong the best its can to classify nature and generally doesn’t get involved in these things.
Except my new buddy Koichiro Matsuno who advocates a shift from 3rd to 1st person.. and utilizing the Dative form to better reflect the emergence of time and a more plausable evolutionary theory bridging the gap better between atom and cell as it were.
https://doaj.org/article/7f442546b604407ab558159c1afe5f43
But to me it’s descriptors of how things are. None of these things take away God; neither proving nor disproving. But I’m agnostic. I don’t know. But I like understanding how things work, or appear to.
t note: I’m not trying to prove a point of any kind really. I’m just excited to find someone (he invented protobiology back in the late 80s so he’s kinda a big deal) – who understands my conceptualization of Time which makes Time as personal from every perspective of the Universe as it is for me, all based on its needs. I like that. A lot. And I didn’t have to write the papers for it either.