[CarolinaGuitarman]

"The notion that there is such a category as "pigeon" is "silly"?"

No, but the category isn't a species category. You said there was only one species of pigeon. In fact there are over 200.

"If words had no meaning, as you seem to suggest my FRiend,..."

I suggested no such thing. It was you who used *species* in a way that would give it no meaning.

"The point is, organs as vastly complex as the mammalian eye, stand as irreducibly complex examples of something designed for a purpose..."

No, they don't. Behe (and Paley, the guy he stole that from) was wrong.

"One would sound rather ridiculous if he tried to explain how such a marvelous organ could arise piecemeal."

Only if it was assumed that the mammalian eye *poofed* out fo nowhere.

"Hence, punctuated equalibrium i.e. don't you dare question the theory."

Um, no. PE is still a gradual process. It is only *fast* in geological time. We are still talking about tens of thousands of years between speciation events.

[Lexinom]

Order/genus/species are categories. Pigeon is a category on some level. Species is probably more granular as you've suggested. I don't know, I don't care, I should have used the word category.

Gotta run now.