• BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    25:00~ This is one of my favorite parts of YEC. Ah yes, the “dog kind” and wolves, dogs, etc all came from that around 4000~ years ago. But the idea of an animal having even bigger changes over millions of years in unfathomable. The evolution they believe in can make incredibly large changes very rapidly, but thinking evolution could make big changes over a long period of time is some wackjob evolutionist thinking.

    Also they’ll never ever define what a kind is and its very funny to ask them.

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      4 days ago

      Similar to flat-earthers, YECs constantly stumble across existing science and think they’ve come up with an original idea.

      “Kinds?” Motherfucker, you mean taxonomy? You know, the field of study about classifying organisms people have built entire careers on? The YEC will go on and on, run into problems actual scientists have already solved, and then think they’re some big brained genius when they can’t figure it out (“therefore it’s unsolvable”) because it would prove the other side correct.

    • CupcakeOfSpice [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      That’s because there is no “real” definition of kind. Genesis describes creating each animal and them reproducing according to their kind. So they took poetic language and tried mapping it directly into a scientific term. It’s similar to how creation had to take place in seven days because the Bible uses the word “day” which corresponds to the Hebrew word “yom” which only ever in the history of the language referred to a 24-hour period. I suppose the Bible does specify “evening and then morning” but the other description is how they tried to teach it to us.