Thread:Dinoman972/@comment-32744161-20180528145333/@comment-24941009-20180604133028

Again, you are avoiding the important questions with arguments that get sillier every time. Why do you want them to be very closely related so bad? If you tell us, maybe we can get to an agreement. Otherwise we might just keep debating about reclassifying a couple of microbes until the end of times.

As for your argument, the Pathola has a jaw. It would be a carnitorian, then. But the point is that classifying creatures solely by the distance between eye and jaw relatively to distance between eye and proboscis is ridiculous if it ignores all other morphological features. What if two cells look almost exactly like each other, but one of them has two spikes between eyes and mouth, while the other has proboscides instead? Are you separating those just because of one difference? Do you really want to take things this far?