The latest thing that seems to convince "students" that evolution is science is this "tree of life" idea.
Scientists are mapping the DNA of many creatures and that allows all the DNA patterns to be compared. You would think this makes "valid" sense. It doesn't, particularly when there is nothing in the physical world that would verify this as real.
Here is the basic logical fallacy of this premise.
They believe that finding similar DNA patterns ALWAYS shows an evolutionary contact between creatures. This is a sad assumption based solely on belief.
Genetics, in particular, DNA shows patterns used by the creature to "grow" itself from the materials on this earth. It shows how the "ideas" or coding contained in the DNA programming progresses to RNA and on to cell development. That is what is shows, and only what it shows.
It does not speak of links between creatures at all, unless there is a hell of a lot in common and when you look at the creatures the morphology, the type of creature ie, such as, mammal, 4 legs, jaw shape, vertebrae, air breathing, and general morphology is the same. You must look at all parts of the "picture" and not fall for assumptions and inferences as if it was science.
An example of this increadibly erroneous concept is that humans evolved from fish, because we have a very tiny set of similar DNA patterns between fish and man.
Read this whole thing, then page 12 and 13 in particular.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2720184/pdf/1404.pdf/?tool=pmcentrez This whole thing is based on a pure logical fallacy that cannot and has never been shown in any physical evidence.
Here is the problem with this idea. People of limited intelligence, can only see one thing at a time, and they are "narrow minded" believers in that thing that they believe in.
The first words of this paper starts out with the assumption that "Evolution is true" when it is not even a good hypothesis any more.
They do not realize that the world is extremely finite and that finding the same cell structures in a human and a fish would be logical for a totally different reason.
That reason is clear when you look at the total number of physical elements in this world in the periodic table of the elements. That is a very finite set of "building blocks" to construct the world with.
Now, go look at the total number of amino acids there have ever been found on this earth. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteans.
here is a decent article on amino acids. I find not much wrong with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acidSo, how many amino acids are there?
How many ways are there to assemble the building blocks of this world to construct the muscle tissue in a mouse, for instance? How many ways are there to construct muscle tissue in a horse, a human, a fish, a dog.....
How do you make an organic substance that will be strong enough to move a creature around by impulses from the brain that stimulate the muscles to move.
Because of the extremely finite, extremely limited building blocks to create organic life from, it is 100% probable that those ways of building organic structures in creatures will be repeated over and over and over.
This has nothing to do with the idea that humans evolved from fish. The idea of humans evolving from fish because of some similar DNA structures in fish and humans is utterly idiotic. I would like to further say that it is an insane assumption that can only come from brainwashing and for no other reason.
It is logical fallacies like this that are ruining science.
These fools spend thousands of hours trying to prove "Evodelusionism" as if it were science, instead of curing illnesses and doing something good for mankind. What a waste of the human mind.
And this pseudo science, religion of Evodelusionism has taken its toll on humanity long enough. This idea of creatures crossing genetic lines is ridiculous. It has never happened on this earth and there is no physical evidence for it.