>
>
> Uncle Davey wrote:
>
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> > So, for me, the best definition of a kind, true to both what I have been
> > priviledged to observe of nature as well as in the Word of God, would be
> > "the whole population of descendents of a group of animals or plants
which,
> > at the time of their creation, were able to breed and have offspring
that
> > were fertile."
>
>
> Sounds fine to me. Now how do you go about telling, in the present
> world, whether two organisms belong to the same or different kinds?
> Because all the evidence leads *me* to believe that there's only one kind.
>
> In particular, how do you tell that humans belong to a different kind
> from the African apes?
>
Well I've given you a philosophical answer. I didn't say it would be
possible to check and know for sure exactly what is in the same kind.
I can say that probably all the Corydoras are in the same kind, but for all
I know there might have been more than one kind of Corydoras, or maybe the
Corydoras are in one kind with the Aspidoras. I really have no way of being
sure about it.
But the same applies to the Linnean taxa, such as species, genus, etc. There
has been to my mind, speaking really only from what I know which is
ichthyology, no end of subjectivity in how these taxa are defined and
applied. There are fish that have about 6 or 7 synonyms for their Linnean
binomial. Have a look at Pseudorinelepis, for example. (I've got a female
that is egg bound, and I'm looking for a male by the way.)
Uncle Davey
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