==Yeah you wouldn’t want to label those axes so they’d provide any useful information. That would be out of line.
The point of the chart was not to communicate specific data points, but to communicate a concept. But if you are asking me, the Y axis begins with Creation between six and seven thousand years ago. The X axis is meant to communicate genetic degeneration ever since the fall. But speaking of not labeling axes, it seems Darwin himself was in the habit of making graphs and charts without data points to communicate the CONCEPT of evolution. Is the following chart from Darwin's "Origin of Species" also "out of line"?
The point of the chart was not to communicate specific data points, but to communicate a concept.It failed at both.
But if you are asking me, the Y axis begins with Creation between six and seven thousand years ago. The X axis is meant to communicate genetic degeneration ever since the fall.
I was asking you, because you presented the graph, but what I was looking for was the explanation from the person who created the graph. What is it supposed to illustrate?
The X-axis, I assumed, illustrates time. I cannot know in what units. The Y-axis illustrates ... something undefined. "Genetic degradation" -- in what units? Number of species, of alleles, of phenotypes? Or does it reflect height, SAT scores, or white cell count? Penis length? The bare graph says nothing. It exists only to comfort eople who can nod sagely at a line pointing downward and say, "See? We're declining."
But speaking of not labeling axes, it seems Darwin himself was in the habit of making graphs and charts without data points to communicate the CONCEPT of evolution. Is the following chart from Darwin's "Origin of Species" also "out of line"?
The axes are labeled. A-L on the X axis, and I-XIV on the Y. If they appeared without a key, then they're pretty pictures with no meaning. If, as I strongly suspect, you omitted the key, then you're intentionally omitting information to claim that it isn't there.