Creationists, What is a "kind"?

"kind" is a term made-up by creationists which they use to describe any grouping of organisms they wish to include together. It has absolutely no scientific worth, but that is exactly what you would expect from creationists, isn't it?

Lexicon Results for miyn (Strong's H4327) Hebrew for H4327 מין Transliteration

miyn

Pronunciation

mēn (Key)

Part of Speech

masculine noun

Root Word (Etymology)

from an unused root meaning to portion out

TWOT Reference

1191a

Outline of Biblical Usage 1) kind, sometimes a species (usually of animals)

Goups of living organisms belong in the same created "kind" if they have descended from the same ancestral gene pool. This does not preclude new species because this represents a partitioning of the original gene pool. Information is lost or conserved—not gained. A new species could arise when a population is isolated and inbreeding occurs. By this definition a new species is not a new "kind" but a further partitioning of an existing "kind".

Authorized Version (KJV) Translation Count — Total: 31 AV — kind 31

What is a "species"? We can pretend biology has great definitions, but it does not, consider the following from Wikipedia:

"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 producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are often used, such as based on similarity of DNA or morphology. Presence of specific locally adapted traits may further subdivide species into subspecies."

Notice that it "is often defined as... While... such as... or...". Let's not pretend the evolutionist have any better definitions that we do.

I like Kent Hovindt's explanation (and yes, I know the man's got issues), put a mouse next to a horse and a zebra and ask a three year old, "which one of these is not like the other one?"

The term "Creationism" as its generally used refers to a literal interpretation of the story of Genesis. Creationists are people who believe that the early history of the Universe happened as described by the Book of Genesis. I suppose you're a creationist by a different definition of creationism, because you believe in a creator.

Forget vague terms like 'kind'. I'd like to see them explain how any species of anything could evolve, or 'change' enough to adjust to Arctic temperatures or equator temps in less than 6,000 years. Or how many fish can survive either extremely diluted salt water or salty fresh-water. Or, how it's possible for only eight people to feed and take care of even a minimal amt of the thousands of 'basic' animal varieties. Or how any of them ate, man or beast, in the following amt of time it took for the water to clear and plant life to start so that the meat eaters could start on the freshly dead. Or, how the eight kept the living meat carnivores away from the diseased corpses.

The words genus and species were not around then.. So yes..

A Roman Catholic

http://www.vatican.va/

PS.. Catholics embrace evolution as well per two Popes

There is no specific information on how a kind relate to current classifications like species, genus, family order.

Old man from scene 24 wins.

Pugykind, that's the point. Species are an arbitrary human construct. They don't really exist.

Are mouse and rats the same 'kind?' Humans and chimps?

Guess which two are closer genetically?

Noah actually only needed about 16,000 animals on the Ark to represent all the distinct kinds (varieties) of land-dwelling animals.

The sea animals would stay in the see and on the different varieties of lad-dwelling animals who said they were full grown?

Well, for example, Noah brought on a femal lion, and a male lion. He didn't bring two of each species.