ICANT writes:
As I look at the so called tree of life many of the limbs and branches are missing.
That seems like an intellectually dishonest approach. You look at a tree, notice that some branches are missing and decide that it's therefore not a tree? Surely it's the branches that
are connected that make a tree a tree.
"I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"