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To: <1/1,000,000th%
It seems like most of the folks arguing common ancestry now are the creationists and ID'ers.

What science should bear out is common ancestry among "kinds" (Whatever THAT means!) but not common ancestry between them. I say "should" only because I consider the text of Genesis as presenting a reasonable account of origins.

1,389 posted on 05/27/2005 6:15:13 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew

What exactly is a "kind"? Are lions and tigers different kinds?


1,390 posted on 05/27/2005 6:17:13 PM PDT by js1138 (e unum pluribus)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

I think the fossil record needs to be brought together in a more organized way to make it available to people. Now that there are software applications for the genome, they could probably be used to organize the fossil record as well.

However, there still isn't a good way to define species beyond the ability to produce viable offspring. And how do you define species for organisms that reproduce asexually? Some viruses get different so fast it's hard to tell what they are. I was just introduced to Hepatitis G. I didn't know there was an F.


1,391 posted on 05/27/2005 6:23:38 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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