(October 21, 2010 at 6:16 am)Zen Badger Wrote: And @ Rjh4, If you can come up with a classification system that can put a furbearing, lactating, tooth equipped creature in with feathered egg laying avians that don't lactate I would love to hear it.
Plants
(All plants subdivided here)
Animals
-----Animals that fly
(All animals that fly subdivided here including what we now generally call "birds" as well as "bats")
-----Animals that don't fly
(All animals that don't fly subdivided here...would not include "birds" or "bats")
Do you really lack that much imagination, Zen, that you couldn't come up with this yourself? Man has chosen to classify animals in a certain way. There isn't just one way to classify things. Furthermore, I am certainly not arguing that the current classification system is "wrong". I think it is perfectly fine. But to say that the Bible is "wrong" because it clearly classifies things differently than we do it now is ludicrous.