The word that is translated as "KIND" in the bible means "to separate out". How can one separate if there are no boundaries?
How does a prism separate out the colors of white light? No boundaries, but we still separate out colors.
The very meaning of the word “kind” (Hebrew, min or myin) represents the boundaries within which a group of organisms can reproduce. God 'separated out' and caused them to reproduce after that separation. You've heard it said that God created living organisms to reproduce “after their kind.”
God didn't say that.
You have said that God does not tell us how He did it.
Other than that He used natural things to make us.
But we were taken from dust and there we shall return.
That's all we get from God. The rest, He left for us to find out.
You simply may not substitute any meaning for a word willy-nilly like that.
Right. The question of how, given that He never told us how, is something science can investigate, at least as far as our physical bodies go.
Our line goes back a lot farther than that.
By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, And to dust you shall return.
You have also conveniently omitted God's account of how Eve was made.
That seems to be almost certainly a parable for man and woman being one flesh. Obviously, the genes wouldn't work by some kind of cloning.
You've likely heard of "The Hopeful Monster" dilemma. As you know, in 1859 Charles Darwin denied saltational evolution by writing that evolutionary transformation always proceeds gradually and never in jumps.
It was never a settled issue. Huxley, his greatest advocate, differed with him on this point. The "Hopeful Monster" of Goldschmit was an entirely different idea than saltation. Moreover, Darwin expressly wrote in
The Origin of Species that the pacing of evolution could be faster or slower, even if always incremental. Incremental change can happen in a quick series, or happen over a very long period of time. But still incremental. Punctuated equilibrium is very Darwinian, since it still regards incremental change as the norm, although it can be rapid, and interspersed with longer periods of stasis. Darwin also predicted this, pointing out that evolution for a well-adapted organism in a constant environment would have to be very slow or even absent.
It may be that Huxley was right about saltation, but if so, it's relatively rare. Massive changes in genome tend to be lethal, unless the organism is very, very lucky. I can't think of a change of the sort Darwin denied right off. If it happens, I would suppose it's by Neotony, the retention of juvenile characteristics in reproductively active adults. Chordates seem to have evolved in that way. It's an interesting set of details, if you'd like to hear about it.
So you see, it's not just a matter of conflating a phrase or two anymore. We can no longer say, "The Bible says man was brought forth from the earth. So where the other animals." [sic] and leave it at that. There is way too much that is intentionally left out. Either the Bible is true as it is or we choose to place our belief in another testament.
A millennium and a half ago, Augustine pointed out that Genesis had to be figurative in many ways, because a literal history as recorded therein, made no sense. It is entirely within reason that allegory can be about real people and real events. So it seems to me, and to perhaps the majority of those who have put their trust in Him.
The Catholic Church regards it as an open question, particularly since God does not make either belief a salvation issue. If you want to believe YE, it's O.K. as far as the Church is concerned. This is the case for Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and most Lutheran denominations.
The physical evidence, however, is compelling and it is also important information about God and His purposes:
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power also, and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.
