What is "baraminology"

n. The classification of organisms based on the Biblical doctrine of Special creation done mainly by creationists; the study of the created kinds.

Baraminology, a creationist system, classifies animals into groups called "created kinds" or "baramin" according to the account of creation in the book of Genesis and other parts of the Bible. It claims that kinds cannot interbreed and have no evolutionary relationship to one another. The US National Academy of Science and numerous other scientific and scholarly organizations have criticized creation science for its pseudoscientific characteristics.

Kurt P. Wise devised the word "baraminology" in 1990 on the basis of Frank Lewis Marsh's 1941 coinage of the term "baramin" from the Hebrew words bara (create) and min (kind). This combined word does not appear in Hebrew; instead, it is in reference to the use of the word kind in the Bible, particularly in Genesis (the creation narrative and the saving of animals in Noah's Ark), and in the division between clean and unclean animals in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

Baraminology borrowed its key terminology, and much of its methodology, from the field of Discontinuity Systematics founded by Marsh in the 1940s.