[f.Christian]

PHYLOGENETIC TREE

A tree that grows mainly in textbooks of biology and which has a variety of both contemporary and fossil animals perched on the tips of its branches. This tree clearly shows how all of these animals branched off from common ancestors a long time ago. For some reason the common ancestors are never shown sitting in the crotches of the tree. Plants presumably grow on different trees which are rather rare.

For some reason the common ancestors are never shown sitting in the crotches of the tree.

[donh]

What is this problem you seem to have with inference? Inference is probably the most common mode of analytical thought in human affairs. Certainly any natural science would be dead in its tracks without inference.

Can you locate the tangible evidence that constitutes the subject matter of quantum physics and shine a flashlight on it? Do you have tangible evidence that gravity operates in the intergalactic void? Based on what tangible observations of objects therein?