What does "common sense" have to do with anything? To you common sense is clearly something different than to me.
Under my belief in evolution, as supported by overwhelming evidence, what I said is common sense. What I forgot was unlike 99.9% of all biologists, you are arguing from a position against evolution.
Unfortunately, and probably because I am becoming ill with "school-start flu," I was arguing from my position of commmon descent over 3.7 billion years as fact rather than as open to debate.
In other words, given that you apparently don't believe in evolution, the logic in my posts naturally does not make sense to you.
After this, I will try to argue acknowledging the constraints of your assumptions, so my posts, at least to you, make more sense and are less abrasive.
ABE - Given evolution over 3.7 billion years, saying there is less gentic diversity today than there was in any pool of single-celled common ancestors, would be a violation of common sense. But of course one would have to buy into the "given" part of that sentence for such a conclusion to be so blatantly irrational.
Sorry, mind too fogged with illness to make myself clear as I would like.
Edited by anglagard, : Clarity.