You had said:
Faith writes:
However it works, Noah's sons and their wives had all it took to propagate the entire human population since then, and all of us now living descend from them.
so your answer, while interesting really doesn't address the question. If we are going to get into mutation and selection as the cause of the variations we now see, then it is obvious that the originals did not have the genes needed and variation is the result of evolution.
I happen to think that is a great explanation, however the time line YECs propose is way too short to account for all the variation seen without invocing super-mega-hyper-macroevolution.
so again, what is the model for kind?
How can we answer the question in the OP about Penguins? What characteristics would let us place Penguins into some kind?
- they breathe air.
- they walk on two legs.
- they have feathers.
- they have scales.
- they lay eggs.
- they are carnivorous.
- they swim.
- they mate in bonded pairs.
- they share duties during hatching.
- they show protective behaviors.
- they can't fly.
- they do not build nests.
- they cannot run.
- they live in social colonies.
- they exhibit herd behavior.
So which characteristics could be used to classify Penguins as a kind?
Aslan is not a Tame Lion