Description
A belief in creationism, even in young-age creationism, does not necessitate belief in the unique creation of every species. As a substitute, many creationists accept a secondary origin of species from ancestors at the start created by God. On this view, groups of brand new species constitute the “Genesis kinds” that God at the start created and beyond which evolution can not proceed (if it can even be known as ‘evolution’). On this selection of papers, six scholars examine the species and the Genesis kinds. Topics covered include the history of creationist and Christian perspectives at the origin of species, an analysis of the Hebrew word min (kind) from the point of view of biblical theology, a baseline of minimum speciation within kinds inferred from island endemics, a comprehensive list of proposed kinds from the mammalian fossil record, the occurrence of discontinuity between kinds, and the origin of new species by symbiosis. – Abstract.