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Author Topic:   The Creation/Evolution dividing line
happy_atheist
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Message 64 of 65 (152023)
10-22-2004 2:50 PM


Watching Almedya post on this topic has been fantastically fun. Classing "homosapiens" as a kind alongside "mammals" is so ludicrous as to be almost unbelievable. Does this mean that humans aren't actually mammals, or does it mean that humans are in the same kind as all other mammals? The same goes for insects and plants. The differences in these "kinds" are far vaster than the differences between a human and a chimp (or any other primate), yet all insects can result from a sincle uber insect while humans and chimps are totally unrelated. Nice logic there
If Almedya (or anyone else supporting his arguments) are to continue they are going to have to come up with a much more rigorous definition of kind. Listing the names of kinds is NOT defining kinds. What is needed is a process for determining kinds. What characteristics define a kind, what barrier stops transfer from one kind to another.

  
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