Truth is consistent.  Inherently consistent.  Consistency is at the very heart of the scientific method where proposed hypotheses and theories are tested and probed for inconsistencies that might render them false, incomplete, or in need of serious modification.  One could simplify by saying that "truth is".

In Darwin's relatively simple-minded times, the imagined family tree was related to morphology, meaning how organisms "look" in relation to other organisms.  In recent years, it has become possible to propose family trees based on other criteria, such as DNA sequences (digital 'language' information), amino acids, proteins, and specific morphology features.  Where this has been done, the new family tree does not match Darwin's or other morphology-based trees.

The most recent example was reported this week by NewScientist (here).  In what they report is "the largest analysis of birds to date using modern genetic methods," enough "surprises" were found to "force biologists to reevaluate much of what they thought they knew about avian evolution," [their words, not ours].  Put more bluntly, classic Darwinian ancestral relationships for the studied birds have been falsified.

Unfortunately, they do not show graphically how dramatic this finding is, but others have done so in prior cases.  It is instructive to highlight a few of these cases.

W. Ford Doolittle¹ constructed such an alternative based on his discoveries (see left). Note the apparent lateral transfer of genes in direct conflict to Darwin's branching tree of life.  Note that Doolittle's view has no single "common ancestor", requiring instead numerous initial life forms from the beginning.  (This reticulated "net" of life is also explained by the concept of "common design points to a common designer.")

 

Under the principle of "truth is consistent", when multiple ancestral trees exist and conflict with one another, only one can be true and it is possible that none are true!

1- W. Ford Doolittle, "Phylogenetic Classification and the Universal Tree" as online at:  http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Ecology/phylogenetic_classification_and_.htm. 
2- from University of Wisconsin - Madison, online at: http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/animaltree.html
 

American aborigines, Negroes and Europeans differ as much from each other in mind as any three races that can be named.
 

 

German Ernst Haeckel, infamous for promoting his fraudulent drawings we know as "Haeckel's Embryos", took the idea even further, writing that:
 

Though the great differences in the mental life and the civilization of the higher and lower races of men are generally known, they are, as a rule, under-valued, and so the value of life at different levels is falsely estimated...[The] lower races (such as the Veddahs or Australian Negroes) are psychologically nearer to the mammals (apes and dogs) than to civilized Europeans; we must, therefore, assign a totally different value to their lives...The gulf between [the] thoughtful mind of civilized man and the thoughtless animal soul of the savage is enormous--greater than the gulf that separates the latter from the soul of a dog. [emphasis added]
 

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights..." 

Did the Founders really mean the Creator was the source of our laws and liberties?  You decide.

"It is so obvious to every reasonable being, that he did not make himself; and the world which he inhabits could as little make itself that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator." -- John Quincy Adams

"It might be judged an affront to your understandings should I go about to prove this first principle: the existence of a Deity and that He is the Creator of the universe; for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in. I shall therefore proceed to observe that He must be a being of infinite wisdom (as appears in His admirable order and disposition of things), whether we consider the heavenly bodies, the stars and planets and their wonderful regular motions; or this earth, compounded of such an excellent mixture of all the elements; or the admirable structure of animate bodies of such infinite variety and yet every one adapted to its nature and the way of life is to be placed in, whether on earth, in the air, or in the water, and so exactly that the highest and most exquisite human reason cannot find a fault; and say this would have been better so, or in such a manner which whoever considers attentively and thoroughly will be astonished and swallowed up in admiration." -- Benjamin Franklin

"...if man could not create himself, nothing else could; and matter, if it were not external, could produce nothing but matter; it could never produce thought nor free will nor consciousness. There must have been, therefore, a time when this globe and its inhabitants did not exist. The question then arises, what gave it existence? We answer God, the great First Cause of all things. What is God? We know not. We know Him only through His creation and His revelation. What do these teach us? They teach us, first this; incomprehensible power, next His infinite mind, and lastly His universal benevolence or goodness. These terms express all that we can know or believe of Him." -- Daniel Webster

"[T]he law . . . dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this." -- Alexander Hamilton

"[The] law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind. . . . and is paramount to all human control." -- Rufus King

These quotes are excerpted from an excellent article by historian David Barton, online at Wallbuilders here and at a longer one here.  Note that David Barton will also be the featured guest on James Dobson's  Focus on the Family broadcast July 3 and 4.  Find a station to listen to here or listen online here.