What does "common sense" have to do with anything? To you common sense is clearly something different than to me.
I gave you the explanation of speciation that almost every biologist would agree with. How that beomes "irrational fanaticism" i'm not too sure.
But tell me more about this "common sense" criteria...How does it work? I mean, when I observe that there exist many separate populations of say, finche, common sense doesn't really tell me much about the underlying genetic situation. I have to study it, to find out what's really going on. Common sense doesn't tell me anything.
The argument boils down to stating the subset of genes in one species is greater than the set of all genes of all species, which is obvously false by definition.
A clear mis-representation of what I said. How is it usually phrased here? A Strawman?
We're talking about a loss of genetic diversity - ie genetic information. Every subsequent speciation leads to less genetic information than before.
Your model assumes no mutation can ever exist, "good," "bad," or otherwise.
No, it does not; My model does not consider mutations to be a source of information great enough to overcome the loss of information due to speciation. Never does it assume the non-existence of mutations (good, bad, or neutral). This means: IF mutations increase genetic information/diversity, they have never been demonstrated (nor do any biologist hold to such a theory, that I know of) to overcome the loss caused by speciation. The Net Change then is negative.
Additionally, if humans and chimps share 98% of the genetic code, where did the other 2% come from? Bacterial devolution? Degeneration from the fall? Subsets being greater than sets?
I'm not sure how this fits in..