Clades and Kinds

Well, given that as you posted before, your side's finest Barimonologists think that the emergence entirely novel biochemical and anatomical structures doesn't consistute a different kind (that'd be those C3 and C4 plants) and that over doubling in size, losing 4 toes, altering the dentition, changing from a browser into a grazer and acquiring specialised energy conservation mechanisms in the leg joints doesn't constitute a different kind (that'd be the transition form Hyracotherium to Equus, I'd say that if your finest Bariminologists count as rational people then we've empirical evidence that, yes, it would.

But this is not true. As I pointed out in my earlier post you brushed off, Creationist "researchers" working on Bariminology believe that major biochemical and anatomical change can occur within a kind.

The two are inseperable. You cannot understand the biology of an organism without understanding its lineage and relationships to other organisms. This fundamental understanding has driven a vast expansion of our knowledge. Figuring out how hox genes function in fruit flies has illuminated the role and function hox genes in humans. Understanding limb differentiation in sharks and chickens has explained limb formation in humans. Picking apart the DNA transcription and translation systems of Archaea has shed fresh light on the systems of Eukaryotes which are, in turn, studied in yeast which because of their deep shared history with us helps us understand our own systems. Mitochondria don't make sense until you understand that they were once free living bacteria captured by endosymbiosis in an ancient Eukaryotic cell.The list goes on, and on, and on.When Dobzhiansky (a Christian who believed that God created the universe) said "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" he was entirely right.

Ah, but I didn't say understand anything about, I said understand. There's lots you can do before you understand the reasons why, you could know the earth goes round the sun without knowing about gravity, you can know that matches burn without understanding combustion and oxidation, etc., etc.There's a lot my don't understand about life precisely because we don't know what it evolved from. We don't know why ATP is used as the universal energy transfer molecule and we don't know why the particular bases used in DNA are used, or why DNA uses thymine but RNA uracil just for example and the reason we don't know a fair portion of these things is that we don't know what they evolved from.

Good for you. It's nonsense, of course, but unlike the Baramin notion of kind it's completely tortured and invented nonsense.But it leaves the question: how do you get those millions of creatures onto the Ark?