After watching a response video to a youtube creationist recently, within which the "they're just reproducing within their kinds!" nonsense was debunked yet again, a question occurred to me: what is that argument actually for?
So, to all those theists here who would use the word kind, to all those willing to quibble over nonexistent micro/macro-evolutionary distinctions, can I just ask what you think you're defending? If you've gotten to the point where you're now admitting evolution happens, but only within certain poorly defined boundaries... what is this argument intending to prove? What is so important in your belief system that it requires the denial of such a piffling, tiny point? You've been forced to edge this far toward evolution by simple facts, why is this final step such inviolable ground that the line needs to be drawn there?
It just seems so arbitrary to me, that you're okay with "kinds" of animals, but the idea that god could just have been talking about the animal kind or something is just so crazy and weird. What's the deal?
So, to all those theists here who would use the word kind, to all those willing to quibble over nonexistent micro/macro-evolutionary distinctions, can I just ask what you think you're defending? If you've gotten to the point where you're now admitting evolution happens, but only within certain poorly defined boundaries... what is this argument intending to prove? What is so important in your belief system that it requires the denial of such a piffling, tiny point? You've been forced to edge this far toward evolution by simple facts, why is this final step such inviolable ground that the line needs to be drawn there?
It just seems so arbitrary to me, that you're okay with "kinds" of animals, but the idea that god could just have been talking about the animal kind or something is just so crazy and weird. What's the deal?
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