Prof. Richard Dawkins presents the children with an outdated version of the tree of life. Some time ago this tree illustration was supposed to demonstrate how all organisms (represented in the tips of the branches) evolved from common ancestors (represented where the branch sprouts off of the trunk) and which are all traced to the first living organism.
Of course, this is outdated and has been replaced by a bush of life or by, as Jonathan Wells states it, “Clearly, the Camrian fossil record explosion is not what one would expect from Darwin’s theory. Since higher levels of biological hierarchy appear first, one could say that the Cambrian explosion stands Darwin’s tree of life on its head. If any botanical analogy were appropriate, it would be a lawn rather than a tree.”1
Prof. Richard Dawkins stated,
“All those animals are cousins of one another and they’re cousins of us_We know that they are all our cousins because we know that they all have the same DNA code. The DNA code of all living things alive today is the same. And, that is too improbable to have come about unless we have an ancestor. We’re all descended from one remote ancestor which lived probably between 3-4 thousand million years ago, and we are all, therefore, all cousins.”
Let us suppose that by “The DNA code of all living things alive today is the same” he actually means that all living things have DNA. Of course, all automobiles have serial numbers thus, all automobiles are cousins. The fact that all of them have serial numbers makes it too improbable to have come about unless they have an ancestor. And they do have an ancestor in common.Wagons were originally intelligently designed and pulled by humans. Later humans attached the wagons to animals. Humans eventually intelligently designed engines. All automobiles are cousins and have serial numbers because sighted, forward looking, auto makers placed them there as a mark of their creation. DNA can mean that we are related to chinchillas, sea slugs, cucumbers and lava or that we do not have common ancestry but a common designer.
