Evolutionary Tree

[SteveII]

It seems you are extrapolating the proven fact that we descend from our parents with modification (with the mechanisms of natural selection and mutations) to the idea all life has a common ancestor.

I haven't, Steve..you, you and no one else, are conflating the two.  Modern Synth -is not- the proposition that all life shares a common ancestor.  Modern synth is the explanation for descent with modification.  Very literaly, the "synthesis" to which it refers is genetics and darwins theory of natural selection.

Those are not the same thing and the proof of one is not proof of the other.

No shit, which is why one being wrong.........wouldn't effect the other............

I have consistently and repeatedly explained this to you (and not just me)..you ape my own comments without even realizing it.  How did that happen, do you think?  Assuming that one is false...as you positively insist, regardless of whether or not one actually is, you know, false (which it isn't)....doesn't alter the other.  Are we done, are you done?

I apologize. I have been using the phrase wrong. I took it to mean the latest synthesizing of all the sub-theories of evolution. I just read that while related, TOL questions are not strictly part of the Modern Synthesis.