Genetic evidence for common ancestry (split-off from "Dating the Noachian Deluge")

star vs tree

The “created with identical genes” model of independent creation is very strange. If all the different unrelated clades, that each have their own common ancestor, was created with identical genes, then for any tree inferred from these genes you’d basically have lots of trees all connecting directly to the same universally shared ancestor. Basically each branch on the star above would be it’s own clade, like this:

star of clades

So basically a tree rooted in a giant polytomy.

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