But if they weren’t, how would they survive the Fludde? If it’s salt water, all the freshwater fish die; if it’s fresh water, all the saltwater fish die. Not to mention the immense sediment load in the water, which should prevent any fish from eating or breathing. Let’s not forget all the fish killed in the Fludde, as shown by fossils.
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More ad hoc hypotheses like “maybe fish back then could survive in both salt and fresh water and they’ve just lost the ability since then”
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I do wonder if all the ancestral fish kinds were themselves massively heterozygous and diversified into the fish species we see today. I wonder if there would be any discernible difference in the genetics of the kinds not on the ark and those on the ark. For that matter, would there be any difference between the clean kinds (7 pairs) and the unclean ones (one pair)? Finally, I wonder if even the creationists take this nonsense seriously.
Yeah it’s funny how that works. It’s all designed only to survive cursory inspection, but please don’t look too close.
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Don’t forget you only need two fish to survive from each kind/family to give rise to all the diversity we see today.
Those were among my thoughts too (well, except the last, I’d forgotten that chromosome numbers differed among horses).
If all equids started with two animals, how did their coat genes get so thoroughly sorted so quickly that there are no recessive non-stripes genes in zebras and no recessive stripe genes in donkeys?
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Also, the term “kind” can be defined as widely or narrowly as fits one’s present purpose. Thus, even all bacteria are a single “kind.” (That has produced the popular slogan, “But that’s not evolution. It’s still a bacteria.”)
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Naked credentialism. When I was a grad student it was explained to me that the student is the world’s foremost expert on whatever his thesis subject is and probably knows the literature better than any professor. Anyway, I’m a phylogeneticist and I found nothing wrong in his post.
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And that appears to apply not just in the sciences but the humanities as well. Of course, considering what a doctoral student has to do produce a dissertation, we should expect this. I would say that the Internet and electronic publications have made this maxim even more obvious. The relevant literature usually becomes known to the grad student much more rapidly than in my day.
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