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The Mountain Lion and the Cheetah are different kinds.
One belongs to the Felis genus while the other belongs to the Acinonyx genus.
So just because they are different in genera, they are different "kinds"? Again, higher taxonomic classifications are somewhat arbitrary (in fact, the genera classifications of the Felidae family have been redefined). So what is the biological reasons for determining different kinds? Hybridization? Something more?
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Only bacteria can do that. So unless they were bacteria.
Not even this comment is accurate. Bacteria only seem to "evolve" more quickly because their generation time is in minutes (Escherichia coli in a rich medium can replicate in 20 minutes), rather than years (the average Homo sapiens takes 20 years to mature (emotionally, not physically) before reproducing). If you look at the number of "replications" though, rather than just looking at a select period of time, this idea of "hyperevolution" doesn't make sense for anything.
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Last edited by nyj; 16th February 2004 at 04:39 PM.
Reason: edited to qualify homo sapiens maturation comment
According to John Woodmorapppe there were approx 16,000 animals on the ark.
After the flood they were released and were fruitfull and multiplied. Speciation occured to produce the wde variety of animals that we have today.
For example there was a large cat kind on the ark. No Lions and no Tigers. I don't know what that cat kind looked like.
We do know that the lion and tiger are members of the same cat kind because a lion and tiger can mate and produce offspring.
Sometime after being left off of the ark the lion and tiger MICRO-evolved from the original ark cat kind.
I have Woodmorappe's totally bogus book. What a hoot! The idea that 8 people could care for 16,000 animals of nearly 8,000 different kinds is so totally silly that it is hard to believe that even YECs would fall for the idea that it is feasible. I'll dig up my analysis on this and post it soon if I can't find it in an old thread.
I guess the microevolution must have happened pretty fast. I think you will find that the Ancient Egyptians knew both lions and tigers. Of course they also failed to notice that a worldwide flood was going on so maybe they don't count.
I guess the microevolution must have happened pretty fast. I think you will find that the Ancient Egyptians knew both lions and tigers. Of course they also failed to notice that a worldwide flood was going on so maybe they don't count.
Indeed. Here's a case of a mummified lion dating back to a few centuries BC. This further compresses the amount of evolution that must have occurred post-flood.
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Indeed. Here's a case of a mummified lion dating back to a few centuries BC. This further compresses the amount of evolution that must have occurred post-flood.
which is before the flood date set by AiG. As I said on another thread the Egyptians just failed to notice the worldwide flood. It is also clear that they had fully domesticated cats by 1600 BC.
Indeed. Here's a case of a mummified lion dating back to a few centuries BC.
Of course, this will be countered with the claim that the dating methods are flawed.
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Don't forget Noahs sons each had a wife. Who knows what their "race" were.
Mmmmm... so Ham had a Chinese wife. She gave birth not to Jewish/Chinese kids, but purely Chinese children. Who promptly moved away from the middle east and settled in China. Shem was married to an Eskimo and Japheth a Polynesian. They all promptly had kids, not of mixed race of course, and then they picked up and moved across oceans and mountains. Settling all in one place, never leaving behind anything that would suggest they'd been there. Of course, now there are no Jewish or Arab children... no Caucasians.
Oh, and of course those women of other races renounced their beliefs to marry into the family of a Jewish Patriarch and then moved back to their homelands where they renounced Judaism and reconverted back to Buddism or shamanism or whatever...
Not to mention we got Pygmies too! Where did they come from?
Your statement that Noah's three kids could have had wives from other races is simply absurd. You have no mechanism, no theory and no plausibility.
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