Species/Kinds (for Peg...and others)

ICANT writes: I can not find a better answer. Do you have one?

Coyote writes:We can't correct you on this, as you are providing the biblical definition for "kind" (at long last!).But we can point out that if kinds=species then the ark would have been awfully crowded! In fact, impossibly crowded.And this is not even counting the stray Brontosaurus or two and all their cousins and in-laws that some believe were taken along for the ride!

anglagard writes:Way back in the past (the early 70s) I read somewhere that if the purported ark was to hold all species known back then it would have had to have been scaled up to 60 miles long.Strange that the rules of Leviticus and Deuteronomy become metaphor for convenience while Genesis becomes science due to a simple minded and fundamentally unchristian jealousy of the educated.

There was no seas in the beginning therefore no fish were created then.

ICANT writes:The Bible declares God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and he became a living being. Genesis 2:7I can not find a better answer. Do you have one?

It is known that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are a likely constituent of the primordial sea. PAH's are not normally very soluble in sea water, but when subject to ionizing radiation such as solar UV light, the outer hydrogen atoms can be stripped off and replaced with a hydroxyl group, rendering the PAH's far more soluble in water.These modified PAHs are amphiphilic, which means that they have parts that are both hydrophilic and hydrophobic. Thus when in solution, like lipids, they tend to self organise themselves in stacks, with the hydrophobic parts protected.In this self ordering stack, the separation between rings is 0.34 nm. This is the same separation found in RNA and DNA. Smaller molecules will naturally attach themselves to the PAH rings. However PAH rings, while forming, tend to swivel around on one another, which will tend to dislodge attached compounds that would collide with those attached to those above and below. Therefore it encourages preferential attachment of flat molecules such as pyrimidine and purine bases. These bases are similarly amphiphilic and so also tend to line up in similar stacks. This ends up making an effective scaffold for a nucleic acid backbone to form along the bases.A small change in acidity would then allow the bases to break off from the original stack of PAHs and so form molecules like RNA.