(February 24, 2017 at 2:12 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(February 24, 2017 at 11:58 am)pocaracas Wrote: okay... if that's how you want to play it...
Your "biology" source used Ray Comfort and the bible as references for accepting "kind" as equivalent to species... If that's how things work on that site, then I'm not going to trust it. I told you so.
Oh, and look at how they describe their dictionary: " an editable-dictionary with thousands of terms".... editable... makes you wonder who added those references to Comfort and the Bible...
My source has kind as a synonym for species... but it's not a synonym for a biological species...well... actually, it's not defined...
Maybe this other source will help:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Species+(biology)
Note that it's "kind", outside of biology.
I thought you'd get that detail from the list of synonyms I gave you, courtesy of the thesaurus... but no...
Shall I proceed in teaching you that the same word can have several meanings? And each meaning has it's own synonyms?
And, in Biology, that synonym doesn't work?
Context matters in English... who'da thunk?
Oh, so now were going to double down?
In the Bible "kind" and "sort" refers to "species", no if and's or buts, in fact if you look at some of the newer translations, "kind" is translated to "species".
Quote:Genesis 1 King James Version (KJV)
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Quote:Genesis 1 Tree of Life Version (TLV)
21 Then God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that crawls, with which the water swarms, according to their species, as well as every winged flying creature, according to their species. And God saw that it was good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species
Quote:In his biology, Aristotle used the term γένος (génos) to mean a kind, such as a bird or fish, and εἶδος (eidos) to mean a specific form within a kind, such as (within the birds) the crane, eagle, crow, or sparrow. A kind was distinguished by its attributes; for instance, a bird has feathers, a beak, wings, a hard-shelled egg, and warm blood. A form was distinguished by being shared by all its members, the young inheriting any variations they might have from their parents. Aristotle believed all kinds and forms to be distinct and unchanging. His approach remained influential until the Renaissance
There you go, "kind" used in the context of biology, what now?
Did you read that?
"the term génos to mean a kind, such as a bird or fish, and eidos to mean a specific form within a kind"... There you go - kind is not species!
Kind as an imprecise term. Do all fish interbreed?
Also, if my history serves me right, Biology, the science, came a bit after Aristotle's time...
Oh and, species is also applied to asexual living entities... fungi, bacteria... how does your definition of kind, requiring that a pair breeds offspring that can themselves breed, hold up?
