Tree of life not real (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, February 16, 2014, 01:34 (3911 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Tony: Humor me. Call it a hypothetical situation where we actually look at the evidence and throw away the assumptions which we can not prove(and will never be able to prove).
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> To me, all that this does is show that complex and simple life have been living side by side for all epochs which we have reliable data for.- I'm still p;uzzled. You are going to have to define reliable data. I have travelled the Grand Canyon by raft with an internationally recognized expert on Canyon geology. At the time he was head of the geology department at U. Manitoba. I've seen the layers, heard about the aging. I have touched the Great Unconformity. Bacteria have been around for about 3.5 bilion years. There were no humans around at the time of the Vishnu Shist, two billion years ago, which I have also touched. So I don't know where you are taking me. Is your point that the aging techniques are not at all adequate?