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Since only members of the same species can produce fertile offspring you are back where you started. The Kind definition hasn't actually reduced the number of animals Noah had to bring on the Ark.
are Norwegian rats and Black rats of the rat 'kind'?
They produce offspring that die shortly after birth.
Golden hamsters and Romanian hamsters I believe produce infertile offspring. Are they of different 'kinds'. Is the rat 'kind' the same as the hamster 'kind'?
What about tiger/lion crosses. The females are fertile but the males are infertile. Is this a 'semi-kind'?
I posted this on the Noah's ark and speciation thread but maybe it belongs here. You have to understand the way creationists use "kind". It has two mutually exclusive meanings and they consider both valid.
The first definition of kind is broad enough so that there don't need to be too many animals on the ark so animals with different chromosome numbers such as horses and zebras can definitely be the same kind and especially closely related animals like horses and Prezwalski's horses with different chromosome numbers must be the same "kind".
The second definition of kind is narrow enough so that humans and chimps can't possilby be the same kind, even though we are very close genetically, in part because they have different numbers of chromosomes.
YECs need and use both these definitions together as the definition of "kind". It doesn't bother them one little bit that these two definitions are mutually exclusive. Consistency is not required for creation "science". Two "explanations" can directly contradict each other and still both be accepted as long as neither contradicts the YEC interpretation of scripture. This is an important principle that anyone who attempts to understand creation "science" must grasp.
What a shame, we didn't even get to go into the observed instances of new "kinds" evolving!
Is it just me, or is the latest batch of YECs here even less interested in a real debate than the ones we've had here before? Normally I'd expect a YEC to start shifting his goalposts at this point, but it looks like evolutionbuster doesn't even want to do that.
All I want is one intelligent, educated, and reasonable creationist to debate with about the origin of birds. Is that really so much to ask?
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