Before we begin, I would like to thank Tangent002 for bringing this horror show to my attention.
In all the years I have heard far-fetched creationist claims, I have never seen one like baraminology. To say it wants to make me tear my hair out would be putting it mildly. Let’s start with the definition from the article’s page:
“Baraminology is based on the concept of the baramin, a term that is synonymous with the Biblical kind. The word barmin was coined in 1941 by Frank Lewis Marsh from the Hebrew words bara (create) and min (kind). A baramin is a group of organisms — those both known and unknown to science and both extant and extinct — who share a genetic relationship through common descent from an organism originally created by the Lord during the Creation Week. For instance, humans are a baramin that includes all the known races (and any obscure or extinct races) which originated via genetic descent from the offspring of Adam and Eve.
Baraminology lets us discuss clearly the Creation model of the diversity and diversification of life. This model is termed Discontinuity Systematics. Unlike the incorrect Evolutionist model that supposes that life forms a continuous lineage from Mushroom to Monkey to Man, the Creation model — supported by science and the Bible — shows that the pattern of life is marked first and foremost by discontinuity. When we step back and look at all the life on the planet, it is clear that we can group the various species into distinct baramins, and that the spaces between these baramins are discontinuities that no amount of Evolutionist fantasizing can bring together. Humans (one baramin) do not form a continuity with apes (another baramin).”
This is only the start of what is a, for lack of a better term, a bigoted dumpster fire. The article proceeds to break baramins down into six categories: Holobaramin, Monobaramin, Apobaramin, Polybaramin, Archaebaramin, and Neobaramin & Paleobaramin. You’re welcome to view the full definitions on the site, but there are problems right out of the gate that have nothing whatsoever to do with evolution or creationism.
To begin, the page’s author uses the terms “Negroid” and “Mongoloid.” The first term is an outdated reference to those of African descent. The second veers into outright bigotry. Like “Negroid”, “Mongoloid” used to refer to those of Asian ancestry. In the 20th Century, it became a slur that referred to people who had Down Syndrome and is considered incredibly offensive today.
The article goes into a detailed description of how bariminology is determined that I can’t make heads or tails of. It ends in a way that goes right off the cliff into insanity. This is the actual quote from the page:
“A cyrptobaramin is a holobaramin that is currently hidden from Mankind. By hidden, I mean that members of the baramin in question have not been seen since some time after the Flood by all but a very few people, if any. Notable examples include the pterosaurs (the saraph), sauropods (of the Behemoth apobaramin), and plesiosaurs (Leviathans).
Expanding on this systematic innovation further, a cryptomonobaramin is a group of organisms within a holobaramin that have become separated from their kin after the Flood and lost to Man’s knowledge. For example, the yeti is a cryptomonobaramin of the ape holobaramin.”
Yes, you read that correctly. This creationist not only believes that dinosaurs still exist, not only that they were hidden by God after the Flood, but that cryptids, such as the Yeti and Loch Ness Monster, were as well.
So, friends. What’s your opinion of baraminology?
Fossil
Article URL : https://objectiveministries.org/creation/baraminology.html