You wrote:
<<I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I used to think I knew
how to communicate.>>
Alice had the same problem at the Mad Hatter Tea Party!
Perhaps, in keeping with the situation, we might consider this take on
evolution, from a great philosopher:
"Contrariwise," said Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were
so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." -- Through the
Looking Glass, ch. 4.
Don't stay away too long, Ashby.
Jim