(December 25, 2019 at 12:41 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(December 25, 2019 at 12:29 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Specific phylogenies are a hypothesis, John, not the notion itself.
What does the "notion" of phylogenies even mean lol?
It means that Phylogeny is a fundamental concept, and phylogenetic trees are important tools in evolutionary biology; phylogenetic trees show a way that aligns well with an accurate understanding of the overall process of evolution.
Phylogenetic tree represent and tell us speciation events. Like some animal species that lived and changed over millions of years. How populations evolved as a result of mutation, genetic drift, and selection for millions years as time moved.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"