Missing sea creatures

Right, but presumably God knows the difference, and its his book, isn't it?

Ancient peoples were primitive, not retarded. If you or I can understand the difference between a fish and a marine invertebrate without being zoologists, so can a Hebrew goatherd.

Ancient people who were not retards. Honestly how long do you think it would take to explain to someone that not everything that lives in the sea was a fish? Especially if you're God?"Hey, Lebish, been meaning to tell you something. Not everything that lives in the sea is a "fish". That word pretty much just means those fleshy creatures with the white meat and the bones in 'em.""Whatever you say, God." Well, we don't have a word for the color of oranges, we have to refer to the fruit to describe it. What is the difference, exactly? Is it possible that people in English-speaking cultures are percieving a difference that isn't necessarily there simply because we have words for the difference?You don't have to have a concept of the wavelength of light to understand that not everything in the sea is built the same way, and that fish are built differently than things that are not fish. You might quibble with the definition of the word "fish", at that point; but if you're speaking to the God of the Universe don't you think you'd take his word on what words mean?

You haven't really addressed my point.

But God would have known that it was important, since he did create them in different kinds and all. So don't you think he would have insisted on the right nomenclature? And don't you think his people would have taken his word for it? And I agree, of course. But that's not the kind of God that would expect Genesis to be taken as a literal science textbook.

Without consulting a dictionary for the precise definition, it means something like "words chosen to reflect organization into categories." Given a proposed nature of God, we can see if that god's actions reflect that nature. And we're able to determine if actions reflect a certain nature in God because we're able to do it for humans, and humans are made in God's image.I don't accept that God can have the X nature and then do things that are contrary to that nature. Well, hell, I hope you're not taking me seriously. I don't really believe any of this. But if we assume that God is the literal author of an inerrant Genesis, that each word in Genesis is there because he said so (which I presumed we were doing for purposes of argument), that has certain consequences.