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Lenny Flank wrote:
> John Harshman wrote:
>
>
>>Lenny Flank wrote:
>>
>>
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>>>Piorokrat wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Piorokrat wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>Surely you have some idea of the limits, and some idea of criteria for
>>>>>basing your decisions. I'm suspecting you think that humans and apes
>>>>>belong to different kinds. I'm suspecting you disagree with my position,
>>>>>which is that there is a single kind containing all life. I'm just
>>>>>asking what basis you have for these opinions, if indeed you hold them.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Yes, I do believe that humans are a separate kind from apes, and the reason
>>>>is that I cannot see with the length of the human generational cycle, even
>>>>if we made it as short as twenty years, would be enough to enable us to go
>>>>back a maximum of ten thousand years and therefore five hundred generations
>>>>and get something that could have interbred with apes.
>>>>
>>>Behe disagrees with you and thinks you're full of shit. And he, unlike
>>>you, is a working scientist. <shrug>
>>>
>>>
>>>Why is he wrong and you're right.
>>>
>>
>>
>>This seems to be an argument from authority and nothing more. If he
>>doesn't know or care who Michael Behe is (and why should he), it loses
>>all potential force. Why keep bringing it up?
>>
>>
>
>
> Because Davey's entire argument consists solely of his OWN arguemnt from
> authority ---- "My interpretation of Christianity says humans aren't
> evolved from apes, therefore they aren't".
>
> Behe is also a Christian (and a creationist). He thinks humans evolved
> from apes.
>
> Ergo Davey's argument from authority is a crock of shit. Unless Davey
> can tell me why HIS religious or scientific authority is better than
> Behe's. Or anybody else's for that matter.
>
> That's why I keep bringing it up.
Then you have to explain to him who Behe is.
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