The fact is that fundamentalism cannot get by without hundreds of nonbiblical canons for which there is no authority but the word of scientifically illiterate evangelists. For example, Svensson says that, according to Genesis, animals were to reproduce only "after their kind." The word only does not appear in the Genesis text. By putting it in his sentence (although quite correctly not in quotes), he has changed the commonplace observation that offspring resemble their parents into a divine injunction. One cannot erect the simple sentence, "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind…." into a scientific principle without adding detailed commentaries on the meaning of the word kind and the intention of the author (or the Holy Spirit).
It is clear that comparative vertebrate anatomy was not a preoccupation of the author. Animals are classified according to their habitat (water or land) or method ...
