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The Creationist Challenge - Can You Identify Kinds?

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DWIII
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06-30-2011 8:33 AM 		Reply to: Message 3 by Chuck77
06-30-2011 7:08 AM

2) Bird kind
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Please elaborate: does this mean all birds (Class Aves) constitute one kind?
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3) germ kind? Bacteria kind?
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Same here; are all bacteria one (and only one) kind?
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4) Insect kind
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Only one insect kind, too?(!)
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DWIII
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06-30-2011 9:17 PM 		Reply to: Message 10 by Taq
06-30-2011 5:53 PM

Taq wrote:
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[Chuck77 wrote:]
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I guess the definition I would use to describe a "kind" would be a group of living organisms having descended from the same ancestral gene pool.
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So what criteria do Creationists use to determine if two species are derived from the same ancestral pool? Do they use morphological criteria? Genetic?
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Even more important: by what objective tests would a creationist determine that any two given species must have absolutely no ancestor in common? This particular claim (i.e., the existence of historically-disconnected pools of ancestry) is the very core of their problem; shedding light on it would go a long way towards building an actual theory of kinds.
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