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To: js1138
People define species to fit the needs of their ideology. Evolutionists would expect a rather fuzzy definition. Darwin said he had come to regard species as just strong varieties. So it is not surprising that evolutionists regard the species boundary as anything that, in the wild, results in groups not intermating.

Humans love to categorize things. It makes thinking easier if one can create convenient huristics instead of dealing with everything one at a time. I'm gonna have to whisper this but sometimes stereotypes aren't bad.

The definition of species is like that. To draw an analogy that will be missed by the people who need it most, if you wake up one morning and it's 55 degrees outside, and by mid-afternoon your thermometer reads 95 degrees, at what temperature would you say the day went from "cool" to "hot"?

1,890 posted on 08/08/2003 10:01:09 AM PDT by Condorman
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To: Condorman
My son, a Florida baby, would say, "not yet".
1,903 posted on 08/08/2003 10:57:28 AM PDT by js1138 (I feel better now.)
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