"it seems to me that assigning something which has a feature that is unique makes it difficult to place in an exact clade"

Pete, you haven't got to grips with this at all. If you really want to disprove a theory, then you need to understand it first. Seriously.


"I am curious as to whether you think anything is better than something else. for example , the "simplest" single cell ,though having some complexity is much lower than the higher taxa.
do you see humanity as not having more value than lower forms, or do you see a line of demarcation somewhere- mammals perhaps?."

Better in what way? Define better.

If, however you mean 'superior' then I believe all living beings are equal in the sense we are part of the complex and wonderful web of life on this planet. No one organism is truly superior as every living thing is a single stage in a long and complex process, a living snapshot of evolution as it is now.

As I've mentioned before, the idea in Genesis that says man has dominion over all living things is a message of pure evil, elevating humankind above the rest of nature and giving a certain type of person licence to abuse and exploit the other living beings and the environment they live in under some sort of twisted moral authority. Of course, godless people do the same but at least they might admit their motivation and uncaring and inconsiderate attitude.


"when I say information, I am referring to the code of dna "letters" that continually "write" the same "blueprint""

But they don't you see. That's the point.