How about this; the coral fungus of life.
For the record, I thought that the
New Scientist cover was needlessly sensationalist. It came in for a lot of criticism from prominent scientists and has been waved around by gleeful creationists from the moment it was published.
The tree of life hasn't been felled. It has, as one would hope for a metaphor that represents a modern theory, been refined and adapted to reflect new evidence. The discovery of phenomena like HGT don't demolish our previous knowledge, they add to it. And guess what; this is how science is
supposed to work. Where's the problem?
Mutate and Survive
"The Bible is like a person, and if you torture it long enough, you can get it to say almost anything you'd like it to say." -- Rev. Dr. Francis H. Wade