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Author Topic:   Genesis "kinds" may be Nested Hierarchies.
Dredge
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Message 31 of 218 (822193)
10-20-2017 9:06 PM
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Re: Dredge: yes? Nested Hierarchies = kinds = clades
I don't think there is a need for a creationists to explain what a "kind" is. That is not the point of the Scripture, which is this: If God initially created simple life forms that later evolved into all the life we see on earth today, there would be no point in him saying creatures were created "according to their kinds", because the original "kinds" were destined to evolve into oblivion.
That is to say, the words, "according to their kinds" suggests a fixity of kinds.

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Message 32 of 218 (822218)
10-21-2017 1:43 AM
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10-20-2017 9:06 PM


Re: Dredge: yes? Nested Hierarchies = kinds = clades
I don't think there is a need for a creationists to explain what a "kind" is. ...
Then they can't say what is not a "kind" ... but then you try to explain what a "kind" is:
That is to say, the words, "according to their kinds" suggests a fixity of kinds.
Would that not mean that in any generation of any species, that the young would appear to be pretty much the same as their parents within the variation seen in that generation? Certainly within the variation seen in dogs, yes?
Let's look at A Smooth Fossil Transition: Pelycodus, a primate
quote:
Pelycodus was a tree-dwelling primate that looked much like a modern lemur. The skull shown is probably 7.5 centimeters long.
The numbers down the left hand side indicate the depth (in feet) at which each group of fossils was found. As is usual in geology, the diagram gives the data for the deepest (oldest) fossils at the bottom, and the upper (youngest) fossils at the top. The diagram covers about five million years.
The numbers across the bottom are a measure of body size. Each horizontal line shows the range of sizes that were found at that depth. The dark part of each line shows the average value, and the standard deviation around the average.
Does that not look like a species reproducing "according to their kinds" from generation to generation?
... If God initially created simple life forms that later evolved into all the life we see on earth today, there would be no point in him saying creatures were created "according to their kinds", because the original "kinds" were destined to evolve into oblivion.
How so?
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Message 33 of 218 (822220)
10-21-2017 3:54 AM
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Re: Dredge: yes? Nested Hierarchies = kinds = clades
IOW, you have absolutely nothing to say.
I could agree to that.

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Message 34 of 218 (822221)
10-21-2017 4:54 AM
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10-20-2017 9:06 PM


Re: Dredge: yes? Nested Hierarchies = kinds = clades
Dredge writes:
That is to say, the words, "according to their kinds" suggests a fixity of kinds.
Fine, but you can't have it both ways. Noah either filled his boat with every 'kind' exactly as we see them today, or he took some subset of them which then evolved into all the organisms we see today.
They're either fixed or they're not, which are you choosing?

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Message 35 of 218 (822223)
10-21-2017 7:04 AM
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ignorant Gods often get it wrong.
Which is simply additional evidence that God got it wrong in both Genesis 1 & 2. Ignorant God.
None of the kinds mentioned in the Bible existed at the beginning.

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Message 36 of 218 (822230)
10-21-2017 12:03 PM
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Re: Dredge: yes? Nested Hierarchies = kinds = clades
Dredge writes:
That is to say, the words, "according to their kinds" suggests a fixity of kinds.
But "fixity of kinds" requires an explanation of what kinds are. What, exactly, is fixed? Poodles beget poodles after their kind and sheepdogs beget sheepdogs after their kind. Dogs are not necessarily a kind. What is fixed?

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Message 37 of 218 (822241)
10-21-2017 7:25 PM
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10-21-2017 12:03 PM


Re: Dredge: yes? Nested Hierarchies = kinds = clades
But "fixity of kinds" requires an explanation of what kinds are. What, exactly, is fixed? Poodles beget poodles after their kind and sheepdogs beget sheepdogs after their kind. Dogs are not necessarily a kind. What is fixed?
The dogs that don't meet the purebred standard?

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Message 38 of 218 (822250)
10-21-2017 8:42 PM
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10-02-2017 11:52 AM


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I'm not aware of any. Got a few examples?
  —"JonF"
Try the article "Do all life forms fall into a nested hierarchy?" at evolutionnews.org.

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Message 39 of 218 (822251)
10-21-2017 8:46 PM
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10-21-2017 8:42 PM


Too funny.
You really use something like Discovery Institute as though it had anything to do with science?
Sheesh. That explains a lot!

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Message 40 of 218 (822252)
10-21-2017 8:47 PM
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10-09-2017 1:11 AM


Re: Dredge: yes? Nested Hierarchies = kinds = clades
Lenski's experiment: 50,000 generations of E. Coli and nothing to suggest that E. Coli can be anything but E. Coli. After 50 billion generations the result will be the same - E. Coli producing nothing but more E. Coli.

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Message 41 of 218 (822253)
10-21-2017 8:51 PM


Does a platypus fall into a nested hierarchy?

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Message 42 of 218 (822255)
10-21-2017 8:57 PM
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Re: Dredge: yes? Nested Hierarchies = kinds = clades
See, you believe crap like that has any meaning; ignorance writ large. E-coli is not just one organism but one of the most diverse examples of bacteria out there with lots of different strains.
What that so called experiment actually shows is about like saying mammals reproduce mammals or plants reproduce plants.
Remember, Creationists, particular those who claim to be scientists are counting on your ignorance so you don't simply laugh out loud when they are fund raising.

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Dredge
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Message 43 of 218 (822258)
10-21-2017 9:15 PM
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Re: Dredge: yes? Nested Hierarchies = kinds = clades
You assume that bacteria can evolve into something that is not bacteria but something more functionally complex. But what evidence is there that that can happen?

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Message 44 of 218 (822260)
10-21-2017 9:24 PM
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Re: Dredge: yes? Nested Hierarchies = kinds = clades
Dredge writes:
You assume that bacteria can evolve into something that is not bacteria but something more functionally complex. But what evidence is there that that can happen?
Too funny.
You really can't do anything but the Gish Gallop can you?
There is a whole bunch of threads that cover the evidence that it can and in fact did happen. We have the fossils so we win. Once there was nothing living on Earth more complex than single celled organisms.
Now there are things more complex than single celled organisms.
So far the ONLY explanation is that evolution happened and the Theory of Evolution explains how it happened.
Stop listening to the liars known as Creationists.

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Dredge
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Message 45 of 218 (822261)
10-21-2017 9:30 PM
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Re: Dredge: yes? Nested Hierarchies = kinds = clades
"Everybody knows that organisms get better as they evolve. They get more advanced, more modern, and less primitive. And everybody knows, according to Dan McShea (who has written a paper called Complexity and Evolution: What Everybody Knows), that organisms get more complex as they evolve. From the first cell that coalesced in the primordial soup to the magnificent intricacies of Homo sapiens, the evolution of life--as everyone knows--has been one long drive toward greater complexity. The only trouble with what everyone knows, says McShea, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan, is that there is no evidence it’s true." - Onward and Upward?, discovermagazine.com, June 1993.

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