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How do you know doves and ravens are two different "Kinds?" How do you know that "birds" are not all one "Kind?" You're not just guessing are you?

Well here it is. My guess is that a few conveniently missed it
Doesn't seem like we missed anything. Calling "Kind" a "type" is hardly helpful. Also, can you tell us why we cannot or should not claim all birds are one "Kind?"
 
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Well here it is. My guess is that a few conveniently missed it

That wasn't a definition, it was a synonym. Calling a "kind" the same thing as a "type" doesn't tell us anything about either. Are dogs, wolves and foxes of the same "type"?
 
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Determining different kinds should be quite easy if they were as distinct as creationists insist. If we sequence the mtDNA or Y chromosome on any two organisms then if their most recent common ancestor was more than 4,400 years ago they're not the same kind. If there were in fact barriers between the kinds then we should be able to distinguish between them by tracing lineage back over the phylogenic tree. When we get to the path that evolution cannot cross than that would mean they're different kinds.
 
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How about this. Use whatever definition of kind, or whatever common sense you wish, or throw in the word type, and answer these questions.

Are foxes and dogs the same kind?

Are lions and tigers the same kind?

And where does a "liger" fit in?

It's pretty much my favorite animal.
 
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And where does a "liger" fit in?

It's pretty much my favorite animal.
how about a tigon? or a tiliger? i believe thats a name of a tigon mated to a tiger i believe
something like that
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Paint yourselves into a corner then --- throw out the Documentation that can (and does) falsify it.
i don't know if you are being ironic or not.. but i find it ironic.. this quote is exactly what creationists do pretty much all the time!
 
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the term "kind" is a made up term. there is no official definition of the word kind.
 
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i don't know if you are being ironic or not.. but i find it ironic.. this quote is exactly what creationists do pretty much all the time!
AV has absolutely no sense of irony. He often accuses others of faults that he himself is guilty of.
 
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32 posts, a lot of hot air, accusations, and peripheral replies, and still no clear-cut definition of the term "kind", as used in the Bible.

This question should be an easy one for those well studied in the Bible.....especially for those who refer almost exclusively to the Bible, in just about every one of their thousands of posts.

What's the problem?
 
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Creationists are ignorant and don't understand that the complex methodology's behind science. they think you can just make junk up, because they have been doing it for quite a while.

Creationists, you will never win against evolution because they don't understand it. To defeat your enemy you must know them better then they know themselves.

its not even like this is a science forum. this is a Christian forum. One would think here of all places, creationists could thrive. Its just sad. pathetically sad, how they cant even answer their definitions to words they themselves make up. This is why you lost at dover creationists. because you have nothing in the way of science. nothing.
 
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I don't need a "falsifiable prediction of creationism" in order to be overjoyed.

Evolution can't occur because God is a god of boundaries, and has set boundaries that [alleles, DNA, genes, whatever] cannot cross.

Because we all know that the existence of a god is proven fact
 
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AV has absolutely no sense of irony. He often accuses others of faults that he himself is guilty of.
I find that lots of creationists do that. They usually accuse me of things I'm not guilty of and they are. Its like they're trying to project their faults onto me. I refer to it as "the pot calling the silverware black."
 
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Would that we could have something equivilent to a national TV show wherein the general public could see these debates. After seeing "AV" and FoeHammer and Dad in action, how many Americans could seriously still be creationists anymore? Americans generally won't read anything with big words, and we want each reply to be researched rather than on-the-fly. So it would have to be a series of video blogs. I'd love to find myself pitted against Ken Hamm or anyone else like him in a situation like that.
 
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Exactly, no one can define 'kind'.

It is nebulous, a throw-away word used in an argument. It has no real meaning in its context.

And this is what creationists want - a discussion that uses words that are undefined and cannot be defined. They bring up ideas and change the goal posts. How insincere and dishonest can you get.
 
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i don't know if you are being ironic or not.. but i find it ironic.. this quote is exactly what creationists do pretty much all the time!
Evolution is a form of self-worship in the name of science....
 
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