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Likewise, RAZD simply saying, "the math is wrong, its all wrong," doesn't explain how or why.
RAZD doesn't have to explain how or why. The overwhelming abundance of data provides conclusive evidence that common descent is the correct explanation for features in the world that we see around us. Evolution happened, and humans evolved from earlier primates. Any math that shows otherwise is flawed, either in the mathematic manipulations or in the assumptions that went into the model.
It is like in mathematics (my field). If I claim to have proven a new theorem and someone else shows an example that contradicts the theorem, then she does not have to show me where my error lies; she has done her part in demonstrating that my "theorem" is false. It becomes
my job to find my error and see if I can correct it.
This is how it works in science (and I have also done some scientific modelling). Models rarely prove or disprove theories. Models are used to see whether or not we understand the unseen processes that drive the phenomena under question. Whatever Haldane's Dilemma is supposed to do, it has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not the descent of humans from earlier primates is true. The truth of the descent of humans from earlier primates can only by determined by looking at the actual physical evidence. At best, Haldane's calculations can only be used to check whether scientists understand the mechanisms that led to the evolution of humans.
If Haldane's Dilemma has any validity (and I am not saying that it does), then it is up to the people making this claim to figure out why the predictions of the calculations are at odds with reality. It is up to them to try to figure out where in the calculations they have gone wrong, which assumptions are incorrect, or, at the most extreme case, what are the correct processes that drove human evolution.
Kings were put to death long before 21 January 1793. But regicides of earlier times and their followers were interested in attacking the person, not the principle, of the king. They wanted another king, and that was all. It never occurred to them that the throne could remain empty forever. -- Albert Camus