Tale of Two Continents --

Mark Walker MWalker at gensym.com
Mon Nov 12 19:04:01 EST 2001


John wrote (and I've been offline):

> 
> Is this to say that your God did not provide an explicit 
> definition? If 
> there is no explicit definitions the views expressed about 
> species earlier 
> in the name of this God might be presumptive.

This, I believe, was John's principal question/point - and I would have to
say that no, my God has not provided me with an explicit definition of
species (although I'm certain one exists), and that therefore my earlier
comments were indeed presumptive.  In fact, my whole point was that I
presume (based on the empirical evidence provided to me via creation) that
God's definition of species (kind) is very different than that which has
been adopted by the science of mankind.  Not that there's anything wrong
with devising our own classification system - just that it's not the
designers definition.  I presume.

It's sort of like learning various vehicle types based on the differences in
tail light design.  It's easy to categorize them this way - but unless
you're provided with explicit labels, you're probably not going to be able
to group them according to manufacturer.

O.K., so it's not that great of an analogy.

Mark Walker
back from a great USC weekend at Cal Berkeley
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