ericmurphy
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I'd just like to add, for everyone's benefit (including yours, Dave, although I can't imagine you'd actually benefit from it), that it's totally worth checking out the links Bill provided that he evidently thinks present a problem from the consensus phylogenetic tree. Look at those trees he linked to, and see the level of concordance to them. Especially scrutinize the one he says to look at "in particular." After a quick glance, one could be forgiven for thinking all seven trees are identical. Keep in mind that all of these organisms are thought to have diverged within a period of approximately 25 million years, half a billion years ago.
Somehow Bill thinks he's found a problem for evolutionary theory. Like Dave with his Michael Denton diagram, I would counter that he's presented a rather spectacular confirmation of the theory.
Opinions?
Also, none of this disputes in any way my original point, which is that lungfish have evolved significantly since they diverged from coelacanths, despite Dave's evidence-free claim that they haven't evolved at all in almost half a billion years.
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