[geocentrism] Re: Hybrid humans?
- From: "Martin G. Selbrede" <mselbrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:04:21 -0500
On May 25, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Dr. Neville Jones wrote:
(Lev 19:19) "You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your
cattle breed with a different kind; ...
Cattle not only have no inclination to "breed with a different
kind," but this is also not possible. Indeed, is it not the
compatibility and ability to mate that leads to the definition of
Genesis "kind" in the first place?
Neville.
You may wish to look up baraminology to get some background on this
from the creation science side.
Note that the mule (cross between horse and donkey) is a sterile
creature: mules don't mate to make more mules. The general notion of
a species is that the members of the group are interfertile (capable
of creating nonsterile offspring). This makes the Galapagos finches
something of a mystery -- the variants are intergraded.
(Intergrading means that if you have seven islands in a line, that
the finches on consecutive islands are fertile (1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5,
5-6, 6-7), but that finches from distant islands are not (nothing
happens when finches from islands 1 and 7 mate -- no offspring).
Modern science received a black eye when an offspring from two
different genera was born in 1978 at the Chester Zoo. An African
elephant (Loxodonta africanus) mated with an Asian elephant (Elephas
maximus) and a composite was born.
http://www.hybridelephant.com/motty.html
When I brought this up in a debate, my opponent argued that this
merely meant the African and Asian elephants were misidentified and
really were in the same genus after all. Then I posed the follow up
question, "Why, then, thirty years after this discovery, has not a
single zoologist proposed altering the genus names for either of
these animals? You guys routinely adjust other taxonomic
classifications at the drop of a hat, so why on Earth would you let
such a blatant acknowledged error go uncorrected for three decades?"
No answer from the other side.
Martin
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