Insect diversity falsifies the worldwide flood.

The above *does* contain a misspelling. The Google toolbar has a spellchecker.--Percy

About the common ancestor of humans and bonobos, it isn't chimps. Chimps and bonobos are cousin species, very closely related. They branched from a common ancestor around 2 or 3 million years ago. Humans and chimps/bonobos branched from an unknown common ancestor around 6 million years ago.About the expectation that common ancestors be extinct, while it is true that the destiny of all species is eventual extinction, there is no requirement that common ancestors be extinct, though it is often the case.--Percy

Chimps are not thought to be the common ancestor of chimps and bonobos. You can find these diagrams in many places, here's the first one I found: To tie this in to the topic, species divergence takes time. Almost all evidence from the natural world conflicts with the idea of a 6000 year-old earth and a global flood as the origin of world geology, and insect diversity is but a tiny part of that evidence.--Percy

You're replying to a post from four years ago. After this initial participation Tranquility Base was gone for quite a while. In the time aferwards I often pondered the reasons why despite his claims to be a scientist that we still seemed to speak no common language, and I resolved that if he ever returned I would require that he contribute in a scientific manner.Tranquility Base returned last year and began a thread called Recolonization Flood/Post-Flood model. You can find my summary at Message 238. You might find Message 143 interesting, too.--Percy