(December 25, 2019 at 2:59 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Do you accept that paternity tests work, or do you not? Conceptually, it's fine if you don't. You would be wrong, but you will at least, then, have a position on the matter. What's not fine, conceptually, is when you decide to accept a certain set of evidence for a conclusion, and then reject that same evidence, for the same conclusion, in any other situation that it may arise. Then, you do not have a position.
A paternity test is not a phylogeny; and a phylogeny is not a paternity test. They are fundamentally different.