[Taxacom] taxonomy article in the NYTimes

[jadams at daltonstate.edu]

Folks,

> On the other hand, when were fossils created? Maybe there were some
> ancestors created before Adam was created. Fossil ancestors, anyway,
> created when dirt and stones were created, which was pretty early.
> Therefore Adam had ancestors available and he could use these as
> outgroups. 

However, then he would have needed tools, some not so dissimilar from those he would have needed for farming, to dig up the fossils!  So  . . .   it would have been only after he was supplied tools or made them somewhere along in his life that he could've done *detailed*, well-rooted phylogenetics (or grown "well-rooted" crop plants . . .).

James