To: Creationist
"Kind is a scientific term."
No, it really isn't.
"It is an interchangable word with species.:
No, it's is very, very different. For instance there are over 1,000 species of Birds. Saying an organism is a *Robin* is not the same thing as saying it's a bird. *Bird* is not a synonym for a particular species. It's the name of a class.
"I do not use the word species because it is a new word created by evolutionist to distant themselves fromt the Biblical term kind."
Species is a word that predates evolution. You are very confused.
" The word species is used to distance yourself from the Bible."
No, it's the tern that has been used for hundreds of years to designate a particular biological population.
24 posted on
02/14/2006 7:15:48 PM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
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
The word kind has been around longer and has the original meaning of organisms that are of the same kind.
We have the dog kind. Within the dog kind we have the German Shepard kind, which if you read above the definition clearly states sort, variety, class. We have the Chesapeake Bay Retriever kind, sort, variety, class, of a dog.
We have the bird kind. A chicken is a kind of bird, sort, variety, class. Within that kind we have Rhode Island Red kind, sort, variety, class. The Japanese Silky kind, sort, variety, class. We have the cat kind. A Siamese kind, sort, variety, class. We have the Manx kind, sort, variety, class.
25 posted on
02/14/2006 10:38:01 PM PST by
Creationist
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