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

[dom.donald]

That doesn't change anything though. It ends with an extremely tentative suggestion that within certain clumps (clades), the timing of the branching may be so compressed, as to render any meaningful resolution into a clear lineage impossible. It seems like that, in the detail, the whole system (based on this dataset and this particular method of analysis) may not resolve into a straightforward tree. But life is incredibly complex, so why would we expect there to be a totally elegant solution that works in every detail, at every level? It's the same in physics. So, further work may be required in this field, but scientists know this anyway. Micro adjustments, not wholesale gaps in a solid theory that is based on mountains and mountains of empirical evidence.