an horse chestnut is genetically closer to broccoli than to a sweet chestnut

As an example – the conker tree – horse chestnut – is more closely related to broccoli than it is to the sweet chestnut tree.
…& sweet chestnut is more closely related to baked beans. Trees are not a branch on the tree of life. Ironically. (6/15)https://t.co/Kv8HSwFrH3 pic.twitter.com/m971F2B7sB

— Dan Ridley-Ellis (@FlyingQuercus) June 18, 2019

There is no such a thing as a tree, phylogenetically like there is carcinization for sea arthropods tending to become crabs, so there is dendronization, tweak the expression of a couple of genes, heat the right and a green plant develop wood

and there’s no such a thing as wood, althought evident is it, from the point of view of evolution

apparently there is a classic Scott Alexander I should read here THE CATEGORIES WERE MADE FOR MAN, NOT MAN FOR THE CATEGORIES

The incipt does indeed smell of classic “The argument goes like this. Jonah got swallowed by a whale. But the Bible says Jonah got swallowed by a big fish. So the Bible seems to think whales are just big fish. Therefore the Bible is fallible. Therefore, the Bible was not written by God.”