Did You Know About Kinds and Species?
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Did You Know about Kinds and Species?
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What is a Kind?
Often, people are confused into thinking that a “species” is a “kind.” You read such confused thinking on the Internet, such as Facebook, all the time. But species is a man-made term used in the modern classification system.
"Kind" is found in Genesis when God creates plants and animals “according to their kinds” and when He instructs Noah to take two of every kind of land-dwelling, air-breathing animal onto the ark. And then commands the animals to reproduce after the Flood.
A plain reading of these verses infers that plants and animals were created to reproduce within the boundaries of their kind. This concept is clearly seen in our world today: dogs breed dogs, cats breed cats, and so forth.
A good rule of thumb is that if two things can breed together, then they are of the same created kind.
(Hybrid animals are the result of the mating of two animals of the same “kind.”)
After the Flood, the animals were told to “be fruitful and multiply on the earth” (Genesis 8:17). As they did this, natural selection, mutation, and other mechanisms allowed speciation within kinds to occur. This was necessary for the animals to survive in a very different post-Flood world. Think of coyotes, dingoes, and domestic dogs which are confirmed to be descended from an ancestral type of wolf.
So what about Species?
Species comes directly from Latin and it is found in the Latin Vulgate (early Latin Bible translation). It basically meant the biblical “kind.”
In the mid-to-late 1700s, species began taking on a new, more specific definition in scientific circles as a biological term. Basically the definition had changed so that, instead of dog species (or dog kind), there were many dog species.
Today the term species bears little resemblance to its ancestor. I am a layman, so this may be a little simplistic, but the best way, in my opinion, to understand this issue is as follows: There is a dog kind, and within that dog kind are many species. Thus, the kinds of the Bible are higher than modern species
Perished: The World That Was
Did You Know about Kinds and Species?
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What is a Kind?
Often, people are confused into thinking that a “species” is a “kind.” You read such confused thinking on the Internet, such as Facebook, all the time. But species is a man-made term used in the modern classification system.
"Kind" is found in Genesis when God creates plants and animals “according to their kinds” and when He instructs Noah to take two of every kind of land-dwelling, air-breathing animal onto the ark. And then commands the animals to reproduce after the Flood.
A plain reading of these verses infers that plants and animals were created to reproduce within the boundaries of their kind. This concept is clearly seen in our world today: dogs breed dogs, cats breed cats, and so forth.
A good rule of thumb is that if two things can breed together, then they are of the same created kind.
(Hybrid animals are the result of the mating of two animals of the same “kind.”)
After the Flood, the animals were told to “be fruitful and multiply on the earth” (Genesis 8:17). As they did this, natural selection, mutation, and other mechanisms allowed speciation within kinds to occur. This was necessary for the animals to survive in a very different post-Flood world. Think of coyotes, dingoes, and domestic dogs which are confirmed to be descended from an ancestral type of wolf.
So what about Species?
Species comes directly from Latin and it is found in the Latin Vulgate (early Latin Bible translation). It basically meant the biblical “kind.”
In the mid-to-late 1700s, species began taking on a new, more specific definition in scientific circles as a biological term. Basically the definition had changed so that, instead of dog species (or dog kind), there were many dog species.
Today the term species bears little resemblance to its ancestor. I am a layman, so this may be a little simplistic, but the best way, in my opinion, to understand this issue is as follows: There is a dog kind, and within that dog kind are many species. Thus, the kinds of the Bible are higher than modern species
Perished: The World That Was
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