Genetic confirmation of a hybrid between two highly divergent cardinalid species

The numbers on the Ark.

Because mutation rates are similar across different species. They’ve been measured.

Not according to the major professional creationism advocates, all of whom suggest the animals were placed into some form of suspended animation (in order to avoid having to deal with food/water requirements, predation and having offspring).

Firstly, that the heterozygosity of animals entering/leaving the ark is not created heteozygosity.

Secondly, all the other factors that render the Ark scenario impossible, such as available space, post-flood dispersion, ecosystem re-establishment, lack of geological evidence, lack of genetic evidence, lack of historical evidence, physical impossibility, etc.

Not a lot. Family isn’t a consistent classification, since there’s no actual test for whether two species are in the same family, just judgement.

Basically, that the further two species have diverged, the lower the likelihood of successful reproduction, and the lower the viability of any offspring.

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