To: SengirV
Yes, in reading that passage in context, it says that God created different varieties of animals. And that tells me what about evoloution?At the risk offending some here by "preaching" some more (i.e. posting the verses), in order to answer your question:
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Yes, He created different varieties of animals. But, that's not all it says, and it's also worth noting that it's said over and over. (Words mean things.) He made them
according to their kinds. He made them in accordance with their own species. He said the land would produce creatures according to their kinds -- not changing kinds.
To: newgeezer
Unless you believe that producing according to their kind means producing identical replicas, such production is going to result in variation from one generation to the next. (You don't look exactly the same as your parents, do you?) If variation is being produced, and there's a process that "rewards" certain kinds of variation and "punishes" others, your variations are going to accumulate in certain directions. Keep this process and this "directed" variation up for a long time, and there's nothing to prevent speciation . . .
and all without contradicting a single word that you've quoted.
132 posted on
04/09/2002 3:46:43 PM PDT by
Iota
To: newgeezer
145 posted on
04/09/2002 4:23:42 PM PDT by
SengirV
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