Baramin

A term created by 'Young Earth Creationists (YEC) to denote the supposed original forms of life created by God and, therefore, those that were preserved in Noah's Ark during the great flood of Gen 6-9.

The term was invented by Frank Marsh back in 1941 by, a highly non-grammatical hitching together the Hebrew word for 'create' (bara') and 'kind' (min). In the years since then YECs have sought to develop a whole scheme, referred to as baraminology by which to classify all living animals by this concept. The scheme has no scientific value and is ignored by all branches of scientific discipline.

Further Reading & Resources:

☰ Wayne Frair, "Baraminology - Classification of Created Organisms," CRS Quarterly 37.2 (Sept 2000): 82-91. html

☰ J. Barton Payne, "The Concept of 'Kind' in Scripture," Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 10 (Dec 1958): 17-20. html

☰ Philip J. Senter, "Using creation science to demonstrate evolution 2: morphological continuity with Dinosuria," (2011) Biological Science Working Papers. Paper 1. pdf

☰ C. W. Todd, P. W. Kurt, R. Sanders, and N. Doran, "A Refined Baramin Concept," Occasional Papers of the BSG, No.3, 1-14. (Though the paper claims to have been 'peer reviewed,' this term should be view in the broadest possible sense, and not in that in which the term is used in, e.g., Nature or Science.) pdf