(September 9, 2019 at 12:42 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: How pseudoscientific is a paternity test?
I don't know how such tests are done. Assuming it's by comparing the DNA of the child with the father, its not pseudoscientific. However, if paternity tests are done without the DNA of the father for comparison, and you guess who the father is just from the DNA of the child, that sounds problematic.
The latter resembles evolution more. Reconstructing ancestral lineages by mostly looking at contemporary ones, and the occasional fossil.