[Cowgirl]

The National Center for Science Education is a small store front in Berkley California with about nine employees.
They are against "creationism" is the school and are promoting theology that goes along with their lies about
evolution. Certainly, we have had microevolution which means animals can evolve within their own kind to be smaller, larger, etc. You can do this with breeding different animals and in a few short years you will come
up with something that looks quite different, but it is
still a dog, cat or whatever KIND of animal you started with. We did not evolve from nothing which is what the
textbooks say happened. The textbooks are full of lies
taught to school children every day as fact. It is a total
disgrace. To teach that we evolved from nothing 4.5 billion years ago is nothing but "religion", paid for by the tax payers.

[NC28203]

That's right. We all know that the world was created on the back of a giant sea turtle as the Iroquois creation story tells us, but they refuse to teach in the schools.

[Stultis]

Certainly, we have had microevolution which means animals can evolve within their own kind to be smaller, larger, etc. You can do this with breeding different animals and in a few short years you will come up with something that looks quite different, but it is still a dog, cat or whatever KIND of animal you started with.

Certainly? You make it sound pretty straightforward.

So dogs and cats are different kinds? How about hyenas? Are they in the dog kind, the cat kind, or a different kind? Or maybe there are multiple "kinds" within dogs and/or cats? Are sharks all one kind, or multiple kinds? If the former, what about skates? Are they in the shark kind? How about rays? Horses all one kind? How many "kinds" of weasels? How about monkeys? Are turtles and tortoises one "kind"? Sea turtles included? (That's a lot of adaptation between a tortoise and a sea turtle!) Llamas and Camels? One kind or two (or more)? Are chimpanzees and gorillas the same kind? If so, how would you explain that chimps are genetically more similar to humans than they are to gorillas? (Maybe humans are part of a larger "ape kind"?!) Etc.

More important, how would you go about answering such questions, and how is your procedure tied to some more general theory of creationism?

[Dimensio]

We did not evolve from nothing which is what the textbooks say happened. No textbook says that we "evolved from nothing".

Please try to develop at least some understanding of evolution theory before you try to attack it.