(August 5, 2014 at 6:26 am)Esquilax Wrote: 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?
In my experience, the whole notion of "kinds" is used in a form of flood apologetics to say why Noah didn't need so many animals on the ark: Baraminology.
I've sense heard "kinds" used the way you mentioned, to split evolution into micro and macro to have their cake and eat it too. They don't want to appear foolish and stupid by rejecting science, and ironically, they don't want to give up their book of mythology.
