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What is an "animal", then? |
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Jan 30, 08 - 8:52 PM |
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"Genetic variation falls under the rubric of God's command to "Be fruitful and multiply" in Genesis 1:28. This suggests that for that to happen, there needs to be built into all living things the ability to adapt to a changing environment, but without changing so much that one animal actually becomes another animal."
Then my question to this is: how do you tell one animal from another animal? What are the qualifiers?
Example: Is the thylacine a different "animal" than a canine? Was it on the ark along with canines, or was the pair of canines on the ark the ancestor to the thylacine (ignoring for the sake of argument, of course, the modern taxonomy)?
They certainly look like they'd be of the same "kind", don't you think? |
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