Help in teaching 11-12 Year olds (RE (Religious Education) in the UK)

We were talking about kinds though, not species. Then cats and lions are a different kind, since they cannot "go forth and multiply". No, not really. Like I said every "variation" of dog is of the same species. No. That's not how species is determined. The one I personally like is "a group opf organisms that live in a certain area and breed together and have fertile offspring". Bear in mind there are always exceptions, since nature is never either black or white. But we're not talking about species, we're talking about kinds. Than neither can the common housecat be of the same kind as the lion, since they are completely unable to hyberdize with eachother. As are ostriches and chickens. Humans are apes of a different species as other apes. No one has said otherwise. Genetic compatibility, like Wounded King said, yes. But, according to your own definition, not all are the same kind of cats.

Okay. So what was it that the domestic cat descended from? Of course they do. Name one of you kinds that appeared 'overnight'. Okay let me get this clear.Noah took 2 unidentified cats aboard the Ark, then 400 years later we have a huge variety of cats?Now, you must be basing this conclusion on some evidence, I hope, so what is the evidence that you have that leads to this conclusion?

No, it is not.Most biblical scholars agree on the date of the "flood" at around 4,350 years ago.The hyperevolution that you claim happened (and for which there is no shred of evidence) would have occurred between the date of the flood and the beginning of good historical records because there is no evidence in the records of any such hyperevolution.So you would need to make up a fanciful explanation for the existence of this hyperevolution, and then explain why it lasted a few centuries at most--and then why it returned to a normal rate just before people began to note and record such things.Face it, you are just blowing smoke--at yourself mostly, and expecting the rest of us to buy your stories.

I want to get ack on this to say that more recent studies have shown felines to have been domesticated at least 5000 years earlier than what you say. Try again.

But these cats would have been wiped out in the Flud! Then the 2 cats on the Ark started all over again and eventually, rather rapidly, the domesticated cats would reappear. Easy isn't it?