Kind

According to scripture, Kinds are categories of related animals. God created a number of different types of animals with much capacity for variation within limits. The descendants of each of these different kinds, apart from humans, would today mostly be represented by a larger grouping than what is called a species. In most cases, those species descended from a particular original kind would be grouped today within what modern taxonomists call a genus. There are however some important difference between a Kind and Species.

Classification

Some of the major Kind groups are as follows:

- Horses, zebras and donkeys and giraffes are probably descended from an equine (horse-like) kind.

- Dogs, wolves, coyotes and the walrus are probably from a canine (dog-like) kind.

- Cats, tigers, lions, lepards and pumas are descended from Carnivora (cat-like) kind.

- All different types of domestic cattle and buffaloes are descended from the Udders (Cows-like) kind.

- Monkeys, apes, lemurs and sloths are all from the primate kind.

- All birds including: parrots, chickens, penguins, ostriches and bats are descended from bird kind.

- Weasels, badgers, beavers, hamsters, and hedgehogs are probably descended from a fur-wearing mouse-like kind.

- Frogs, toads, newts, lizards, and snakes are descended from an underwater non-fish like kind.

- All insects including: bees, flies, moths, nits, ticks, leeches and snails are descended from small kind.

- The platypus, starfish, kangaroo and turtles are completely unrelated to anything else.