Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
His meaning of origin was to explain how one species evolved into another.

No life, no evolution! Of course, your religion doesn't need that part...

I can hear the choir now..."there is no god, there is no god...lalalalalala..."with fingers in ears!

From: Answers.com

Origin

or·i·gin (ôr'ə-jĭn, ŏr'-) pronunciation n.

1. The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.

Species

spe·cies (spē'shēz, -sēz) pronunciation n., pl. species.

1. Biology.

1. A fundamental category of taxonomic classification, ranking below a genus or subgenus and consisting of related organisms capable of interbreeding.

2. An organism belonging to such a category, represented in binomial nomenclature by an uncapitalized Latin adjective or noun following a capitalized genus name, as in Ananas comosus, the pineapple, and Equus caballus, the horse.

Organism

or·gan·ism (ôr'gə-nĭz'əm) pronunciation n.

1. An individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life.

2. A system regarded as analogous in its structure or functions to a living body: the social organism

51 posted on 06/24/2008 10:53:16 AM PDT by WVKayaker (Your mileage may vary...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies ]


To: WVKayaker
No life, no evolution! Of course, your religion doesn't need that part...

Do you ask the same of other sciences--do you demand that the scientists studying gravity explain where mass came from? Or that astronomers explain where hydrogen came from before you accept their silly theories about how the sun works?

54 posted on 06/24/2008 3:43:22 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson