RE: Is belief in God a natural instinct ?
November 19, 2012 at 4:50 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2012 at 4:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 19, 2012 at 3:39 pm)John V Wrote: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/clad/clad1.html
Quote:After you've read through the pages on the implications and methodologies, you will be armed in the ways of cladistics. Therefore, if you dare, you can take a journey into the real world of cladistics. Should you choose to venture on this journey, pray you are well-armed with good luck and wits!
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There are three basic assumptions in cladistics:
Any group of organisms are related by descent from a common ancestor.
There is a bifurcating pattern of cladogenesis.
Change in characteristics occurs in lineages over time.
The first assumption is a general assumption made for all evolutionary biology. It essentially means that life arose on earth only once, and therefore all organisms are related in some way or other. Because of this, we can take any collection of organisms and determine a meaningful pattern of relationships, provided we have the right kind of information. Again, the assumption states that all the diversity of life on earth has been produced through the reproduction of existing organisms...
Did you want to have a conversation about cladistics instead of evolution John? Or - is some part of that supposed to support your previous statements? If so, would you care to highlight which part and why you think it does so?
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