Tuesday, August 5, 2025

The Top 5 Things About Biological Essentialism

1) It is consistent with the Genesis Kinds (baramin).  On #Day3 we get plants:

"The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good" (Gen. 1:12).

 

Noah's Ark by Donald Schwartz:

https://www.amazon.com/Noahs-Ark-Annotated-Encyclopedia-Species/dp/0765761106


How Many Animals Were on the Ark? ed. by Craig Froman:

https://answersingenesis.org/store/product/how-many-animals-were-ark/

 

 

2) There are two books on this topic with the exact same title‼

 

Biological Essentialism by Jay Hall (2021):

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320


Biological Essentialism by Michael Devitt (Oxford Univ. Press):

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/biological-essentialism-9780198840282

 

Hall vs. Devitt:

https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com/2023/08/biological-essentialism-vs-biological.html

 


3) Biological Essentialism is basically Aristotle's Biology.

 

The idea that biological natural kinds, particularly a species like dogs, have intrinsic underlying natures is intuitively appealing.  It has been shown to be widespread even among children (Keil 1989). It was endorsed by a great philosopher, Aristotle. ... For, the consensus among philosophers of biology, and a widespread view among biologists, is that this sort of “Aristotelian essentialism” is deeply wrong, reflecting “typological” thinking instead of the recommended “population” thinking (Sober 1980: 247–8). This essentialism is thought to arise from a naive and uninformed view of biology, indeed to be incompatible with Darwinism. ... I shall defend intrinsic biological essentialism. I think that the children are right and the philosophers of biology, wrong.

   -- Michael Devitt (Biological Essentialism, p. 1)

 

Amen & Amen!

 

4) Biological Essentialism and #YES Young Earth Science go hand-in-hand.  I argue that #BioEss leads to Catastrophism which naturally favors a youthful world (last chapter):

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

 

Dinos and Trilobites lived at the same time, so we must collapse conventional geochronology.


5) Do you really believe that the Blob Fish, platypus, hydra, 13-celled critter, redwoods, Sam from Sale$, honeyguide, Philetairus socius, Haleakalā silversword, tortoise and solar sea slug all have a Common Ancestor?  If there are distinct natural kinds, then Darwin was wrong and Kripke & Putnam (see Devitt p. 1) are right!  

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

 

What is Biological Essentialism (video)?

https://youtu.be/3B9Y1XEUWVk

 

MOOORE on #Biological_Essentialism >>

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-6537-5_19

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

 

** kudos - graphic source:

https://www.craiyon.com/image/bAPdupw0Rf2We7HjmP4n5w

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/556124253976423430/


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