Shoot! People, review the last (mistakenly bolded) sentence RAZD snipped from his source.
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From the point of view of the fossil record, the 'sister-group' relationship of whales and hippos promoted by molecular phylogeneticists is now plausible, though still tenuous and unproven.
They're still smearing the other tree. Their own compromise is new and hasn't had time to be scrutinized too much, and they have the nerve to call their opposition's tree "tenuous and unproven." Bad politics. I doubt their compromise will be accepted.

Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm

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