{"id":3374,"date":"2013-09-26T20:43:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2017-12-06T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T13:41:21","slug":"reification-of-the-tree-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/reification-of-the-tree-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"Reification of the tree metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief note to a regular reader.<\/p>\n<p>The Darwinian &#8220;tree of life&#8221; is not an actual tree. It is a diagram of relationships. Therefore it can survive without having established its &#8220;roots&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It could be granted that the origin of life was artificial, or even supernatural, and the theory of evolution would still be applicable within its domain.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the error in the essay challenge has been pointed out, but it costs us little to hope that a sincere individual, in no way guilty of peddling a religiopolitical agenda, would acknowledge the mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief note to a regular reader. The Darwinian &#8220;tree of life&#8221; is not an actual tree. It is a diagram of relationships. Therefore it can survive without having established its &#8220;roots&#8221;. It could be granted that the origin of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/reification-of-the-tree-metaphor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,81],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-origin-of-life","tag-tree-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}