DerrickJ79 #fundie

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Bacteria strains and flu virus strains are not examples of evolution. They are simply variation within a kind. Also, none of the examples in that article that bazmerelda posted the link to are cases of evolution, either. Most people don't know this fact: speciation is not evolution. Most people also don't know that creationists believe that different species arise by natural selection. Speciation and natural selection are different from Darwinian evolution. Darwinian evolution is the creation of a completely new "kind" of creature. The term "kind" fits mostly with the taxonomic "Family" group (roughly: bears, cats, dogs, whales, etc.). A change from one Family group to another has never been observed, thus, evolution has never been observed.

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Mot creationist DO NOT believe in natural selection because they've never understood it due to the constant misinformation from the likes of you.

"When I use the word evolution," DerrickJ79 said in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I need it to mean in that instance - neither more nor less!"

You’re not that bright, are you, dearie? If bacteria strains and flu virus strains are variations within a kind, then fungi to humans is also variation within a kind.
Bacteria is a domain
Viruses are not really life forms, but very, very close.
Animals, plants and fungi belong to the Eukaryote domain.

Most people don’t know your delusion, no. Speciation is part of evolution.
Natural selection is the basis for evolution.
Darwinian evolution is adaptation through random mutations and natural selection.

Honey, you just said that bacteria is a kind. Bacteria is, as stated before, a DOMAIN, not a family.

Dogs, bears, foxes, even whales and dolphins, used to be the same family. Then they speciated away in different directions for millions of years, and by-and-by they turned into different families.

"Most people don't know this fact: speciation is not evolution."
I think there's a pretty good reason most people don't know this, it's not a fact. Maybe what you mean to say is 'speciation occurs, but it's not conclusive proof that we're descended from monkeys.'

"Most people also don't know that creationists believe that different species arise by natural selection."
Maybe because of all the creationists shouting that speciation never occurs... Maybe?
Oddly, the best way to distinguish groups of creationists is not by the gods they worship or the scripture they follow, but the parts of evolutionary theory they accept and the parts they reject.

Darwinian evolution is the creation of a completely new "kind" of creature.

Find that definition anywhere but a creationist site.

The term "kind" fits mostly with the taxonomic "Family" group

So why not just use the term "family"? Or is "kind" just a word that can mean whatever you need it to mean to fit your purposes? Nah, couldn't be...

Why do you not believe that one "family" could evolve into another?

“taxonomic "Family" group”

WE made those groups, literally, it’s just our species’s way of classificating them.

Actually, "kind" in Latin is...
...species.

In German, the word that corresponds to "kind", "Art"*, is (in the context of taxonomy) synonymous with "Spezies".

* not to be confused with "Kind", child, or "Kunst", art

Wow. Creationists are getting desperate. And they still fail to understand how small changes can accumulate into large changes, if you give them enough time. Which is really not the difficult a concept.

A lifeform's adaptation to the conditions of it's environment is Evolution.

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Darwin is certainly the reason why the Church of England still exists to this day, OP: via it's adaptation to the socio-political changes since before they buried someone who was previously in training to join their ranks.

Kind means whatever you want it to mean.

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