In the recent Intelligent Design issue of Salvo Magazine, Logan Gage and I co-authored a piece titled, "Barking up the Wrong Tree," which assesses popular arguments for universal common ancestry. From the outset, it should be stated that neither Logan Gage nor I feel that universal common ancestry is necessarily incompatible with theism. In a twist of poor logic, however, that fact is apparently sufficient for some theists to think that they should therefore accept common ancestry. Logan Gage and I observe that "when discussing science and faith, it is vital to ask the right questions. Queries beginning with the words 'Could God have...?' tend to be unenlightening. The much more revealing question is 'What does the evidence say?'" Thus the "right question" is not whether God could have used common ancestry in the history of life (of course He could have, that's why we call Him God!). The "right question" is: What does the scientific evidence say about universal common ancestry? On that point, we find that the scientific data is increasingly challenging universal common ancestry on multiple fronts ranging from paleontology to molecular biology. To see the whole article, click here to read Barking up the Wrong Tree.