Remember the old "missing link" business? What we have here are some "missing classes, orders and families" ~ a lot more than a "link" sort of thing.
None of this is surprising if life, per se, in all of its various locations throughout the universe, shares the same fundamental engines ~ they should be expected to be shuffled a bit differently (but otherwise utilize the same DNA) coming from different places.
That would be fine with me, but the purpose of the space program is not actually to search for life or even to do science. It has a state purpose.
Because the mathematics of abiogenesis never work. Thus we’ll never see the suggestion that there are multple starting life forms when no one can prove the first one could even come into existence.
You cannot spontanously create the simpliest life form presently known to man without completely defying the laws of probability. This is why many evolutionists will state that there were many, many intermediate lifeforms that evolved between the first life form that came into existance and the single celled amoeba we find today. Those lifeforms are either extinct, or as of yet, undetected.
Continuing, these life forms were much simplier and gained complexity and functions over many successive generations until they become like the single celled amoeba we find today. It really comes down to this, God did it, or space aliens. And if you want to go with space aliens, where did they come from originally?
It's hard enough to ponder why a single universal code would evolve, but how in this world or any other could the SAME DNA code evolve convergently?
Cordially,