Species near each other on the path should have more similar DNA than species further apart.
Thus, echidnas should have the nearest DNA to platypi. They do.
Did you really read ThinkPlease's post? You try to make everything go away by chanting "platypus," "gene-spliced pigs," "monkeys typing Shakespeare!" You look like a terrified ingénue branishing a crucifix at a vampire.
[Plato the Platypus says: "Would someone deliberately design me?"]