[exDemMom]

Unfortunately, with DNA evidence on people long dead, you have much the same problem as the old bone-splicers of old - which is that modern investigators are piecing together disparate pieces of evidence to make them fit the picture that has already been pre-determined. In other words, the evidence tends to be made to fit the theory, instead of the other way around.

The evidence fits the theory because the theory is just that good.

It also has great predictive power; without the theory of evolution to use as a guide, I'm not sure how we would use evidence collected about, e.g., a metabolic pathway in one species to make predictions about a similar metabolic pathway in a different species.

[GourmetDan]

"It also has great predictive power; without the theory of evolution to use as a guide, I'm not sure how we would use evidence collected about, e.g., a metabolic pathway in one species to make predictions about a similar metabolic pathway in a different species."

Let's see. Metabolic pathways between dog and wolf, similar. Metabolic pathways between dog and fungus, dissimilar.

Yep, where would we be without 'evolution' to help us solve the deep questions of life...