Public discourse in origins: here be dragons

[John_Harshman]

@Michael_Okoko

@swamidass

@Michael_Okoko

Creationists acknowledge phylogenetic trees are evidence for common descent as long as it doesn’t connect all extant organisms and excludes humans. When it connects humans and all extant organisms, they blatantly ignore it.

That is not quite correct. There is a range here.

I was speaking loosely here, but I was referring to YECism.

It works for OEC too. The only wiggle-room is in what counts as the human “kind”. But it never, to my knowledge, includes chimps.