Science can't define "species" (Talk.Origins)

Claim CB801:

Complaints about creationists not defining "kind" are unfair since evolutionists can't define "species" consistently.

First of all this is not a creationist claim, Talk Origins doesn’t even give a source.

The simple fact is that "kind" does have a definition. Now there has been some difficulty in reconciling the Created kinds concept to the standard classification system, but this has largely been because the Created kinds are not a perfect fit with the classification system. Furthermore, new discoveries have caused changes in our understanding of which animals are and are not the same “kind”.

CreationWiki response:

Likewise “kinds” are expected sometimes to have fuzzy and imprecise boundaries because of the degree of diversification that has occurred even since the Flood. So both sides do have a similar problem.


 * 1) The created kinds are not the same as species.
 * 2) The created kinds have not been static but have diversified since they were created.

The same thing applies to the Created kinds concept. For example, while hybridization works well for establishing living animals as the same “kind”, it does not work for fossils since they are a little hard to breed.