Evolutionary Reasoning and Tree-Dwelling Ancestors

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When dealing with supporters of universal common descent, it is often frustrating and slightly amusing at the lack of evolutionary knowledge many show. Worse, they accuse creationists of not knowing "science," even when we demonstrate more knowledge about certain subjects than they do.

Evolutionary scientists are portrayed as unified with only slight disagreements about details. Supporters seem oblivious to statements against interest where experts admit they have problems. The situation of a shrew-like tree dweller that is held up as our evolutionary ancestor helps illustrate these truths.

Proponents of evolution are quiet about great disagreement among scientists. A shrew-like creature is put in our lineage, showing disagreement and lack of logic.
"Docodonta Order" mostly made at DeepAI, then modified for texts
The usual story is that humans and apes diverged from an unknown common ancestor millions of years ago, but this is not LUCA (the Last Universal Common Ancestor). Nor is it fish we all supposedly evolved from, either. The hominine (the word itself question-begs evolution) are humans, apes, and lots of other critters, but paleoanthropologists debate their origin.

Shrew-like creatures of the Docodonta order are thought to be in our ancestry. Their teeth are a reason evolutionists consider them. Even so, there is debate and they appeared fully formed in the fossil record. That is fully in keeping with what creationists expect. A poorly-defined group called Mixodectes make it all worse. Evolutionists have standard excuses, but those do not explain anything except to those who are predisposed to believing the origins stories no matter how lacking in real science.
Docodonta is an extinct order of mammaliaforms (“mammalian forms”) suddenly appearing in the fossil record complete and fully formed as predicted by the creation model. Evolutionists state their complex dentition convergently evolved along with the teeth of therian mammals. But how did such complex docodontan teeth evolve from their simpler ancestors? Evolutionists don’t know. However, Jiang is correct when he states that the Docodonta “have unique adaptations tailored for their respective ecological habitats.” This is expected by the creation model because these mammals were designed to move in and fill such habitats.

To read it all, see "Is an Ancient Extinct Tree-Dweller Our Relative?"