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Thank the gods I'm an atheist
"After its kind" is science that is proved thousands of time every day and can't be falsified. The Bible is not a sciendce book, but where it touches on science it is right.
It is called genetics. What determines what characteristics the child will get?
Genesis 30:37-39
37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
And you don't want me to get into Biblical cosmology with the Tehom and the Leviathan and all of that silliness.