Most evolutionists hinge on some belief about shared ancestry. This DOES NOT prove evolution. It's backwards. There is NO evidence for a working, functional evolution. And, in fact, all of the "evidence" for common ancestry can be attributed to common Design elements. If you can't solve the problem going forward, to where it actually becomes useful, and real, then you believe in a new age fairy tale, taken all together. A false religion of so-called science that is a DILLUSION. Fate is not without a sense of irony, I suppose. The Bible has always made the same claim about what it is, and where it comes from, and still stands firm on testable, repeatable, observable scientific phenomena.
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The classifications you think of as "dog" or "cat" are poor approximations. There is no ladder of species with one species as a pinnacle.
There is no such thing as "mutational load". If a replicant cannot bootstrap into a body that allows it to replicate with another compatible replicant - its code is deleted from the population's shared codebase along with whatever changes made it incompatible.
There are lots of these sorts of gates that demand to be preserved. The genes that code for the spindles around which chromosomes match cannot be changed much without the structure failing to work - which is why yours and mine are likely identical.
But the genes that correspond to non-coding regions like the dead hemoglobin areas or the dead endogenous retrovirus areas - are all free to drift without having impact on the built organism.
Everyone has at least 100 single nucleotide polymorphisms ( single nucleotide bit flips ) that are the result of every recombination event. The system is very fault tolerant, though - and if it can build the blastocyst - it can likely build out the rest of the organism to the point where it can reproduce.
Most recombinations fail. Millions of sperm vie for a chance to hit a single egg - most of the time that recombination is not compatible and an organism does not built out. But because this process is tried billions and billions of times - even with a high fail rate - eventually a successful recombination emerge.
In our species - thats a new baby. A lucky winner of the lotto to see this crazy universe thing.
If you honor your god - at least give it credit for being clever. It does not need magic to run this universe machine. Its MUCH more elegant as without the dev opening up console and running tweaks.
Besides - tweaking the simulation is an antipattern. God is an engineer. It would not be a hack engineer. It would be a master. A master can just let it ride. That appears to be what is happening in this universe.