Huntard writes:
So? You said that kinds are only interfertile within their own kind. Meaning that if one cat (say, a lion) cannot be interfertile with another cat (say, a comon housecat), they are not of the same kind. Or is it perhaps not the best way to determine a kind, interfertility?
you may have a point on that depending on what a 'species' actually is. Have we made the correct determination of what a 'species' is? I dont know.
What i said earlier is that the boundary between "kinds" should be drawn at the point where fertilization ceases to occur because in Genesis, a 'kind' was mentioned along with 'go forth and muliply'
Genesis doesnt go into the details of how the muliplying would take place. It simply says they'd multiply 'according to their kinds'
as far as i'm aware, the basic meaning of a "species" is a sort, a kind or a variety. But then in biologic terminology they apply a species to any group of interfertile animals that have one or more distinctive characteristics. So really, a moggy is the same species as a lion because they have one or more distinct characteristics, yes?
but if we take it back to hybridization, some cats of different varieties can be hybridized, but there is a complete inability of man to hybridize with the ape family...therefore apes and man cannot be from the same 'kind'. We may look similar and have similar characteristics, but those characteristics do not mean we are from the same species so the biologic terminology of what a species is cannot be 100% accurate either.
Huntard writes:
Then you accept evolution. Though a much much faster version of evolution then has ever been seen. Also, why would the changes stop at a certain point, as you seem to be thinking?
it would seem that chromosomes play a role in successful reproduction.
If you looked at the link re hybridized cats, they show how cats with a certain number of chromosomes are not compatible with cats of a different number. But the point is that even though they have different numbers of chromosomes, they are still cats.