Evolutionary Tree

[SteveII]

Without wasting my time correcting what you on -any- point of fact, it doesn't mean anything at all.  Modern Synthesis is the theory that explains how and why life evolves.  If you wish to refer to conflicting evolutionary histories, you are explicitly accepting Modern Synth in doing so.  As has already been explained to you, assuming multiple and disparate evolutionary "families", if you will, exist.......they still have and do evolve.  If we found aliens, ffs, aliens....that are in no way related to us, we have still, and still do..evolve.  Modern Synth...the theory that explains -this-....still explains this.

You, for example...won't suddenly stop inheriting things from your parents, nor will you suddenly stop mutating throughout the course of your life, nor will your environment suddenly stop selecting for or against you or a particular trait you do or don't have...if it tuns out that you didn't inherent something from someone else's parents.  Is this even remotely difficult to understand?

Condescension aside, you are simply explaining the fact that "decent with modification" is not contingent on "common decent". I agree, decent with modification is certainly a fact (in the strongest sense of the word).

However, if some genes say we are related to chimpanzees and some genes say we are not, and that conflict is not resolved, that would significantly weaken the theory of common decent. My point was and continues to be that if common decent is called into question in the long run, every other part of the overall Theory of Evolution (modern synthesis) that is not an observable fact (in the strong sense of the word) is undermined (which is most of it).