[VadeRetro]

Nah! DNA studies put the monotremes (that the platypus and echidnas for you creationists) right where the morphological studies put them, on their own branch and less related to those other primitive mammals, the marsupials, than the marsupials are to the placentals. (Look up the words if you don't know them.) ThinkPlease's falsification reads thus:

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.

[PatrickHenry]

You try to make everything go away by chanting "platypus,"

[Plato the Platypus says: "Would someone deliberately design me?"]