Evolutionary Fiction

Evolutionary biologists often reason from assumed evolutionary events in the past to infer mutation rates and biological ancestry. If two genes are similar, biologists will say that they must have diverged from a common ancestor at some time in the past. Based on the assumed divergence time of organisms and genes, rates of mutation are calculated. In this way, real events which occurred in real time are confused with imaginary evolutionary events which never occurred, and biologists do not make a distinction between the two. Divergences of organisms and genes which really did occur are not distinguished from those which are only assumed. This leads to tremendous confusion, such as molecular clocks speeding up and slowing down, mutation rates based on little more than imagined evolutionary history, confused evolutionary trees, and so on. It might aid the progress of science if biologists were more willing to admit that this evolutionary scenario of past history is only a hypothesis, and if they took more seriously the possibility that it never happened.

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