1. There is no tree of life
Abiogenesis, or life from dead matter is impossible. Equally absurd is the idea that pond detritus somehow 'mutated' into man. No evidence for this exists. In this vein, there is no foundation, whatsoever, to the idea that there exists a mythical 'tree of life'. These pretty diagrams manufactured by the cult of evolution are premised not on science, but on faith. If one was to draw the 2 million flora or fauna in a diagrammatic expression, it would resemble a field of grass, not a tree.
The fossil record clearly represents a vast and immediate occurrence and disappearance of life. The Cambrian explosion of roughly 540 million years ago, in which 23 phyla [some state 30], still present, were formed with no antecedents or prior structures 'slowly evolving' is one dramatic example. The geological record shows no indication whatsoever, of minute changes leading to transitional species, then on to newer morphologically different fauna or flora. For instance soft-bodies animals have been found dated from supposedly hundreds of millions of years ago, yet they are exactly the same as the species found today. It is well known that the shark, coelacanth and other 65-300 million year old creatures [as dated by the cult of evolution]; have undergone no DNA change at all. How is this possible if the human only diverged from the ape 6 million years ago? Evolution is fast except when it is slow?
It should be mentioned that the 2nd law of thermodynamics, namely entropy or system degradation would indicate that mutations, which in 99.9% of all cases kill genomic information, would over time, lead to the extinction of the species.
2. DNA error checking and replication
It is an established scientific fact that DNA replication, including a built-in error checking method and a DNA repair process, makes the idea of DNA being produced by chance, rather inane. Systems with built in replication and repair, cannot 'evolve' error detection and correction. This is six-sigma quality software. Software by itself does not arise from random processes. Obviously the inherent self-awareness of DNA makes this software system irreducibly complex – a phrase that sends the evolution cult into rage. Complex systems which are intelligent enough to monitor and repair their software code, cannot be created by chance. Period.
In the real world of bio-chemistry, any attempt by the DNA to change is stopped and reversed. From Dartmouth Univ. a hotbed of evolutionary theology:
Chromosomes, Chromatin, DNA Replication and Repair
"Replication also contains built-in error checking. The frequency of errors is about 1 per 100 million bonds (1 x 10-8). Over the entire human genome, that works out to roughly 30 errors every single time the genome replicates. BUT! There are really only around three errors per replication because of DNA repair. If a repair enzyme finds a mistake, it can fix it, and it can tell which strand is wrong because it can tell which strand is the newly synthesized strand by at the extent of cytosine methylation. As DNAs exist in cells, many of the cytosines have a methyl group added to them by enzymes called methylases. A new DNA will have relatively few methylated cytosines because it has not been around long enough to have picked up that many methyl groups."
"Without DNA repair there can be some major problems. Xeroderma pigmentosum is a serious ailment caused by mutations in the gene for DNA repair. People with xp develop many skin tumors and other problems because of the number of errors in their DNA."
Systems fix themselves by chance? Stupid. Mutations cause DNA errors and genomic degradation. This is why species go extinct.
If mutations by random chance produced new DNA information [they don't]; then shouldn't humans be radiating everything in sight? Wouldn't everyone rush down to the X-ray clinic? Shouldn't the Japanese post-Hiroshima have mutated into super-men, or the Ukrainians post-Chernobyl into the heroic Communist god-man?
Mutations and radiation kill. See cancer for more information.