RE: Debunking Creationism #1 - How Human Evolution Works
May 13, 2022 at 9:37 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2022 at 9:53 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(May 11, 2022 at 9:32 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: None of them, however, can reconcile evolution itself or the theory which explains it..with the story in magic book.
It's not an issue of the word "kind" - though we've gone down that road on these boards before and it's a shitshow even on it's own grounds. Animals do not, in fact, reproduce according to their own kinds, because kind is an unworkable category with respect to the reality of biological divergence. Use "kind" to refer to any factual biological category and it will take all of twenty seconds to find a living counter-factual. As a society, though, we're more than willing to negotiate the reality of this with the afflicted. All things being equal..and even between christians...we know that a person who goes out of their way, ties their scrotum into a knot, attempting to make fantasy accord with reality, is less likely to be a terrible nutter.
Kind means species, and animals do in fact reproduce according to their own species, the literal criteria of kind/species is being able to produce fertile offspring.
