We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.