It's not clear to me from the Genesis text that the language used there has
any thing to do with reproduction or fixity of species (or genus or
family), but rather it has to do with the diversity of each major grouping,
i.e. God created all the different kinds of each major grouping described.
Even if it did have to do with such concepts, it doesn't some to me that it
precludes an evolutionary scenario. I don't know of single evolutionist
who doesn't believe that organisms reproduce after their own kind. The
progeny is of the same species as the parent.
Glenn has given us some examples of speciation via polyploidy that might be
exceptions to this, but the most prevalent speciation models don't involve
such "macromutational" events.
TG
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