(October 19, 2017 at 11:04 am)Huggy74 Wrote: When people speak of the animal pairs that went into the ark they ALWAYS assume that it was a pair of the exact same animal and not a pair of the same species.
A pair of the exact same animal would be clones and I'm pretty sure no one has
ever suggested that.
Quote:The Bible uses the word "kind" and "sort" which have the same meaning as "species".
Kind, and sort, are not terms biologists use.
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Quote:http://www.dictionary.com/browse/species
species
1. a class of individuals having some common characteristics or qualities; distinct sort or kind.
I've no idea what usage of the term 'species' Dictionary.com are defining here.
However the next entry:
Quote:Biology. the major subdivision of a genus or subgenus, regarded as the basic category of biological classification, composed of related individuals that resemble one another, are able to breed among themselves, but are not able to breed with members of another species.
That is the definition we all know and love.
Quote:What defines a species is the ability to produce fertile offspring. So if two different animals are able to produce fertile offspring then by definition they belong to the same species.
Absolutely correct.
Quote:So in what way does minimum viable population disprove this?
It doesn’t. What you've done is to throw a curve-ball, a red herring.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.