Why the religious will never admit you won the argument (and why they don't care)

[ohreally]

Are you a poe?  Every time you reply you make the title of this thread become more on point.

The tree of life is a metaphor about diversity among species.    How specific can a metaphor be and and still be a metaphor?  How can there be a gap of knowledge in a metaphor?  Perhaps it's you who is interpreting it incorrectly.

No I mean a Phylogenetic Tree. Not a metaphor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic_tree

It turns out that genetically, you cannot trace genes backwards (down the tree) because some tell contradictory genetic histories. So, new theories like "networks" and "webs" are used in an attempt to map these genes backwards (no tree). Some genes come from way the hell on the other side of the old tree. How? Don't know.

You previously mentioned Darwin, by name, so I was assuming you were talking in regards to that time period in which it would surely be just a metaphor.  

I'm glad you are atleast now addressing some modern science.   Just because you don't understand how it works doesn't mean that other people do not.