Tale of Two Continents --

[John Grehan]

Mark's clarification is acknowledged. I won't pick at the subject any 
further as it gets more into purely taxonomic and systematics issues than 
would probably be of interest to most on this list.

John Grehan

At 07:04 PM 11/12/01 -0500, you wrote:
>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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