| rdfs:comment | - Baraminology begins by examining the names of each known animal, plant, or fungus, and rigorously analyzing them using the well-thought-out technique of irreducible complexity. For example, the "dog", consisting of a mere three letters, constitutes a baramin known as the dog kind, because if you remove any one of the letters, you get either "do", "dg", or "og", all of which are palpable nonsense. On the other hand, the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, according to the following five-step baraminological reduction pathway:
- Baraminology is the study of baramins, also known by the Biblical term kinds. A baramin is a lineage of earthly life which is believed by Young Earth Creationists to be created by God during the creation week, and corresponds in some functional aspects to the secular concept of species. However, unlike species concepts that are based on Darwinian thinking, the baraminic barrier is inviolable, as other baramins do not evolve from earlier baramins. Jonathan Sarfati writes regarding the Biblical kinds of organisms:
- Baraminology is creationist pseudoscience silliness. It is created as an alternate to Linnaean classification. According to the Mythology in the Book of Genesis God created plants and animals. "after their kind" so Baraminologists separate living organisms according the imagined kinds in Genesis. This can mean trying to reconcile limited evolution with the bible but the same people in other contexts will insist that the whole of evolution is in their opinion false and evil, "evilution".
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| abstract | - Baraminology begins by examining the names of each known animal, plant, or fungus, and rigorously analyzing them using the well-thought-out technique of irreducible complexity. For example, the "dog", consisting of a mere three letters, constitutes a baramin known as the dog kind, because if you remove any one of the letters, you get either "do", "dg", or "og", all of which are palpable nonsense. On the other hand, the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, according to the following five-step baraminological reduction pathway: Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Pacific No-thwest Tree O-topus P-cific No-t-west Tre- O-top-s P-cif-c No-t-wes- Tre- --top-- --ci--- No---we-- -re- ---o--- --c---- -o---w--- ---- ------- is not only reducibly complex, but is also clearly a variety of cow, which places it squarely within the cow kind. From these basic examples, it follows that if the name of any biological life form is only three (3) letters long, it constitutes irreducibly complex proof that that particular biological life form is a bona fidé created kind, into which all the other living and/or extinct organisms may be conveniently sorted after reducing (and never increasing) their information content.
- Baraminology is creationist pseudoscience silliness. It is created as an alternate to Linnaean classification. According to the Mythology in the Book of Genesis God created plants and animals. "after their kind" so Baraminologists separate living organisms according the imagined kinds in Genesis. This can mean trying to reconcile limited evolution with the bible but the same people in other contexts will insist that the whole of evolution is in their opinion false and evil, "evilution". When evolution can be confirmed, eg with the Peppered Moth creationists insist they're the same kind or baramin (but they're still moths). When fossil evidence shows one species evolving into another species creationists typically deny the evidence. Biologists see strong similarities between humans and (other) apes, the similarities are certainly greater than similarities between different types of moths. Still the bible says humans were created separately from apes or other non-human animals and for creationists what Bronze Age people wrote in Genesis is more authoritative than any scientific evidence. Therefore Fossil Hominids get assigned, somewhat arbitrarily to the human kind (baramin) or the ape kind (baramin) then creationists try and deny the transition from ape kind to human kind. Comparison of all skulls has a table of different creationists' opinions of which baramin each skull belongs to, discrepancies and all. A related claim is that there are no transitional fossils, this is false. When transitional fossils are pointed out to Creationists they frequently assign the transitional fossil to one or another kind (baramin) and keep repeating the pretense that there are no transitionals.
- Baraminology is the study of baramins, also known by the Biblical term kinds. A baramin is a lineage of earthly life which is believed by Young Earth Creationists to be created by God during the creation week, and corresponds in some functional aspects to the secular concept of species. However, unlike species concepts that are based on Darwinian thinking, the baraminic barrier is inviolable, as other baramins do not evolve from earlier baramins. Jonathan Sarfati writes regarding the Biblical kinds of organisms: Based on the Biblical criterion for kinds, creationists deduce that as long as two creatures can hybridize with true fertilization, the two creatures are (i.e. descended from) the same kind. Also, if two creatures can hybridize with the same third creature, they are all members of the same kind. The hybridization criterion is a valid operational definition, which could in principle enable researchers to list all the kinds. The implication is one-way—hybridization is evidence that they are the same kind, but it does not necessarily follow that if hybridization cannot occur then they are not members of the same kind (failure to hybridize could be due to degenerative mutations). After all, there are couples who can’t have children, and we don’t classify them as a different species, let alone a different kind. Baraminology, as a model of origins, complements the Linnaean taxonomic system, which is also based on the Biblical view of origins. Baraminology is seen as an alternative to the evolutionary system of cladistics, which is generally considered incompatible with Linnaean taxonomy since cladistics proposes an unfixed hierarchy.
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