It’s been…7 years, I think? Since that first piece, and there was a followup, and neither engages with the actual data we use for phylogenetics, so I’m not expecting much at this point.
Dan_Eastwood:
Several examples in mainstream science demonstrating how phylogenetic data can be used to test Common Descent versus specific design alternatives. These examples are (Theobald 2003?) and White (2012) if memory serves. In both cases the Common Descent hypothesis is a clear winner against separate origins hypotheses. The main point of both publications is not to test Common Descent, but to demonstrate how Design hypotheses can be tested using mainstream methods. Other Design hypotheses should also be testable, but to date no one in ID has taken up these methods.
Baum et al. 2016 as well. The topic of a prolonged back-and-forth between myself, @GutsickGibbon , and Rob Stadler, which ended when Rob admitted that there is no extant pattern of similarity that precludes common design.
Which is exactly the problem everyone is pointing out.
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