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To: CarolinaGuitarman
No, I mean, define *kind*. Specifically. And scientifically.

Websters, Second College Edition, New World Dictionary of the American Language

----kind----

1. [Archaic] (a) origin (b) nature (c) manner; way
2. a natural group or division (the rodent kind) sometimes used in compounds (human-kind)
3.essential character
4. sort; variety: class

Is that specific and scientific enough for you.

Because species is used now as the word of the day does not cancel out the word "kind" as a scientific word. Because you do not want to acknowledge it as a scientific word does not void it. Definitions 1(a), 2, and 4, clearly state it in a scientific way.
21 posted on 02/14/2006 1:07:15 PM PST by Creationist (If the earth is old show me your proof. Salvation from the judgment of your sins is free.)
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To: Creationist

"No, I mean, define *kind*. Specifically. And scientifically."

*Kind* has no scientific meaning at all.

" Is that specific and scientific enough for you."

No, it's incredibly vague and has nothing to do with biological classification.

" Because species is used now as the word of the day does not cancel out the word "kind" as a scientific word."

Yes it does.


22 posted on 02/14/2006 1:09:28 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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