At 06:44 PM 4/13/02, Doug wrote:
>Ronn Blankenship wrote: > > >>Yes. Frex, could you artificially inseminate a female St. Bernard with >>Chihuahua sperm? (The other way around, there might not be enough room >>for the fetuses to grow to full term.) > > >But that doesn't make them the same species. You said earlier that Tigers >and Lions could interbreed but that they were different species. I think >that the morphological differences between St. Bernards and Chihuahua's >are probably greater than those between Tigers and Lions. The speciation question, though, is whether a hypothetical St. Bernard/Chihuahua mix would be fertile with other dogs? Ligers and tilons (oh, my) are generally sterile with both parent species or other crossbreeds of the same type but the other sex, as are mules. >Reading the faq posted by Dan: >(http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html) its obvious to me >that there isn't any real clear way to define a species especially when >you add plants and asexual organisms into the mix. > >In any case, the FAQ should give plenty of ammunition to John for his next >conversation with his creationist friends. If it were too clear, John wouldn't have anything to converse about with his creationist friends . . . ;-) -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
