Kind is the only term we can use since taxonomy relates things which are unrelated (in my opinion they are unrelated - unrelated by birth/common descent). Kind is a commonly used word. It's found in the dictionary. It's got nothing to do with evolution (common descent).
The point is, reptiles are not birds. I don't think lizards and snakes and turtles belong to one kind.
I never said reptiles are birds, birds are reptilian, though. though. Besides, that wasn't your initial, point, your initial point was that "Birds fly and reptiles crawl on their bellies",
WHICH IS WRONG, AS I JUST POINTED OUT WITH THE GLIDING REPTILES AND THE FLIGHTLESS BIRDS. Don't try and change what your point was, because I shot your original point out of the air like the Spitfire did to the Messerschmidt.
If the extent of what you "know" about taxonomy is limited to "Birds fly and reptiles crawl on their bellies", (Which is quite clearly not the case (As with
FLIGHTLESS BIRDS and
GLIDING REPTILES.) then your opinion on what's related/unrelated, and what you think belong to the same species is laughable, at best.
Well the difference between us and the animal kingdom is huge. We have the intelligence and the ability to believe in God. We have the ability to understand and come to the knowledge of God.
We do have the ability to believe in God, do you know what that stems from, that no other animal has?
Imagination! It's where art comes from, literature, belief in the supernatural.
And animals do have abilities and intelligence. Every kind has a range of abilities. Some birds can fly faster than other birds. Some can't fly at all.
Precisely my point, and contradictory to your initial point that intelligence and abilities separate us from the animal kingdom. Intelligence doesn't separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom because animals have intelligence. Abilities don't separate us from the animal kingdom because all animals have abilities. An animal with neither would very soon be a dead animal, to another animal that has the ability and intelligence to eat it.
Yes, real research. I'm sorry if the term is alien to you, but it basically means read up on things from multiple (Non propaganda) sources.
All animals have the ability to learn behaviour. You can train dogs. My cat's got me trained. LOL
No one trained the orangutan to fish. You train a dog through conditioning. If it does what you want it to do, you reward it, if it does something wrong you punish it. Yes, you can do that with all animals.
What the orangutan was doing is the result of the orangutan observing people doing it, and learning from watching them. No one trained the orangutan, it taught itself simply by observation.
