Classification Methodology
Conditions for membership in a (holo)baramin and methods of classification have changed over time. These include the ability to create viable offspring, and morphological similarity.
Some creationists have suggested that kind refers to species, while others believe it might mean any animal which may be distinguished in some way from another.
Another criterion is "baramin distance" which is based on the similarity of two or more organisms' characters and uses methods borrowed from phenetics.
Some advocates believe that major differences in the appearance and behavior of two organisms indicates lack of common ancestry. Others point to inter-fertility capability as a possible indicator. In all cases, methods found to place humans and other primates into the same baramin have been discarded.
Baraminologist Roger W. Sanders advocates a subjective approach to classification over a measurement-based one:
| “ | The cognita are not based on explicit or implicit comparisons of characters or biometric distance measures but on the gestalt of the plants and the classification response it elicits in humans. | ” |
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