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Old 01-13-2003, 11:51 PM   #31
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I dont know that I see your point. To play devils advocate, wouldn't the creationist simply say that kinds being theoretically unrecognisable does not change the fact that they are, in fact, kinds?
Yes - all the while of course, dodging the question of any sort of biological definition of a kind.

It's interesting that some creationists will criticise the classification of species, and in particular the classification of fossils according to morphology as being unscientific "assuming common ancestry just because they look the same" and yet in another breath they'll tell you that all dogs are of the "dog kind" because - well, they all share "doggy" characteristics. I'm sure if you searched Hovind's site you'd be able to dig up that contradiction.

(And, actually, since they claim that "all dogs are descended from wolves" (sort of) for basically the same reasons that "evilutionists" recognise common dog ancestry - genetics.)

I'm not surprised your brain is crumbling, DD!
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