How far will you take the literal view of Genesis 1-11?

[Paraleptopecten (Timothy Campbell)]

@RichardG

It is not provable!

Neither is anything else in science.

@RichardG

All this DNA matching is circumstantial at best and you refuse to accept that it actually proves nothing.

@Paraleptopecten

The inputs for a parsimony analysis are “Here are the input sequences.”, “Here are the observed relative likelihoods of each basic type of mutation.”, “Group thing by what takes the lowest number of changes.”, and nothing else.

@Paraleptopecten

Why does this cladogram, purely based on blind statistical analysis of half of a gene that encodes a mitochondrial electron-transport chain protein agree as well as it does with radular characters, gross soft anatomy, and shell characters, if it doesn’t reveal relationships?