Bill has had that graphic and it’s implications explained to him close to twenty times now. At length. He does not understand why it doesn’t show what he thinks it does even after having had it explained to him over and over and over again.
First one of Bill’s creationist friends claimed ORFan genes somehow contradict phylogenetic evidence for common descent, which I tried to explain to him was the other way around here.
Later, the way in which the graphic still only makes sense on common descent was explained by John Harshman here: Common Design vs. Common Descent | The Skeptical Zone
Here’s Bill’s ingenious response: Common Design vs. Common Descent | The Skeptical Zone
colewd: None of us understands Sal’s flower including you. All of us can create a story that explains it but we are probably wrong. You are discounting outside space time explanations for the flower but including them in your explanation of common descent.
If you eventually realize the circular reasoning going on inside evolutionary biology I will be very impressed.
I added non detail because of the difficulty of an outside space time detailed explanation. That does not stop us from collecting evidence that points to an outside space time solution.
Mind you, Bill was present in the thread and read those responses. Ever since that time he’s brought up that graphic again and again and again. Even in that very thread. Despite it literally implying the opposite of what he’s insisting. It’s been over 2 years now, and he still doesn’t get it.
But, hey, we are discounting the “outside space time detailed expanation”.