Originally posted by RJHinds
What definition of species do you wish to use? What definition do your evil-lution scientists use? The following is the first paragraph of the wikipedia article on species:
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and pro ...[text shortened]... re used, such as varieties, subvarieties, and formae).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species
That's more like it. How would you fit that into the "kind" idea from the Bible? If the first definition is used, being able to interbreed and produce fertile young, each species is a kind.
If we use that definition, it's as good as any other for our purposes I suspect, then how do you account for less than 8000 species pre-flood, less after, and yet a more than a thousandfold increase since then? Remember that using the definition you just gave kind=species so we have a huge increase in number of kinds since then. I doubt very much that you will say that God has been doing a crafty bit of creating since then and no biologist is going to admit that evolution would go that fast!
To be honest, I have no idea how, or even if, evolution works. The evidence I see could be just as easily explained by something or someone fiddling with the fauna and flora on this planet from time to time. My problem is that I know how long this has been going on for and it's definitely a lot longer than 6000 years no matter what it says in your holy book. To convince me otherwise you have to convince me that most of physics is wrong. That might take some doing considering how easy it is to test physical theories. Especially compared to how difficult it is to test evolution.
I doubt that you will make any meaningful effort in that direction though. I suspect your purpose here is not to save my soul or any other nonsense like that, but just to annoy.