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Parasomnium
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Message 24 of 42 (528693)
10-06-2009 4:52 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by Peg
10-06-2009 5:47 AM


Peg writes:
do you beleive there are exceptions other then bacteria?
There are lots of other exceptions. A great many creatures (plants and animals alike) reproduce asexually. Science classifies them in their respective species on different grounds than the interbreeding criterion.
The definition of 'kind' does not take these species into account, presumably on the grounds that the people who wrote the books of the Bible had no idea there is such a thing as asexual reproduction.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

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