Rate of Change

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/21/01 11:19:12 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

> It's one thing to say that a systematic pattern shows the absence of
> coincidence -- which is all that you have said in the statement above. It's
> another to say that that pattern proves a single ancestor, which was Prof
> Trask's point.

-- no, in point of fact it's exactly the same thing.