Can a Common Design model be useful?

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@deuteroKJ what do you think of this article by a YBC/YEC?

The “Kinds” of Genesis 1: What Is the Meaning of Min?

This is a paper by a Seventh Day Adventist about the meaning of “Min” in Genesis 1. She is either a young earth or young biosphere creationist, and this paper looks at the meaning of “according to their kind.” The interpretation of mˆîn—what is meant by a “kind”—is thus fundamental to a proper understanding of the relationship between science and religion. The chief purpose of this article will be to consider the word mˆîn in Genesis, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. She is makes a good case that “according to their kinds” doesn’t tell us about reproductive fixity of kinds. The same phrase appears in Numbers and Deuteronomy in lists of unclean and clean animals, where it couldn’t possibly mean reproductive fixity. I would agree with Payne in his mediating view of mˆîn. According to this proposal, mˆîn refers to a “multiplicity” of animals and denotes boundaries between basic kinds of animals, but is not linked directly to reproduction. Again, this view is substantiated by the Hebre…