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The diversity of life on earth is the outcome of evolution: an unsupervised, impersonal, unpredictable and natural process of temporal descent with genetic modification that is affected by natural selection, chance, historical contingencies and changing environments.
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This certainly is true enough. You can see in everyday in the species of cats, dogs, birds, etc that exist in the current time. However, using Darwinist Evolutionary Theory as applicable to Man is somewhat flawed. The "tree of life" as Darwin describes it simply doesn't exist.
To wit, Darwinist Theory breaks down in a number of areas and unfortunately, a number of observations and experiments that "support" it, having been proved false or flawed, are still taught in schools and universities to this day.
1. How do you explain the "Cambrian Explosion" the rapid occurance of most of the complex animals in the fossil record about 530 million years ago? Darwin himself saw this as a major issue against his theory of evolution by natural selection.
2. Darwin theorised that species evolve through the success of "traits" that helped them survive, the classic "survival of the fittest". If Darwinist Evolutionary theory is solely responsible for a success of a species, why don't we see more "intermediate forms" in the fossil record or in the present time?
3. The Miller/Urey experiment of 1953 where Miller created a few simple amino acids, the "building blocks of life" in a closed lab experiment was severly flawed. The "atmosphere" Miller used was not at all like the early atmosphere of the earth. Besides, the "amino acids" that were created were more like formadehyde, an "anti-life" compound.
4. Haeckle's Embryos. It has been conclusively shown that Haeckle not only chose embryos in varying stages of development, but that he actually "altered" the drawings to support his evolutionist conclusions.
5. Science has determined that the known universe is approximately 15 billion years old, and most astronomers and scientists acknowledge the "Big Bang" theory as having the most validity when compared to other theories. The possibility that atomic elements could combine to together to form compounds, thence amino acids, thence proteins, all
in the correct sequences to create life (not to mention DNA and RNA chains), would far exceed the time the universe has been in existence.