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In creation biology, Baraminology is the effort to classify created kinds. The term was devised in 1990 by Kurt P. Wise from the Hebrew words bara (create) and min (kind). The term "baramin" was coined by Marsh in 1941 to represent the different kinds described in the Bible in the Genesis descriptions of the creation and Noah's Ark, and the Leviticus and Deuteronomy division between clean and unclean. Baraminology has also been termed discontinuity systematics.
Baraminology aims to use four terms to distinguish groups of organisms: holobaramin, monobaramin, apobaramin, and polybaramin.
- Holobaramin — A holobaramin is the set of organisms that belong to a single baramin. In other words, it is a group of organisms that (1) shares continuity (meaning that each member is continuous with at least one other member) and (2) is bounded by discontinuity. In this sense,universal common descent in the theory of evolution would suggest that there is only one holobaramin covering all organisms. Among creationists, humans necessarily form a holobaramin, since in creationist conceptions they were created specially and would not share ancestral or genetic relationship with other animals. Evidence to the contrary is explicitly rejected.
- Monobaramin — A monobaramin is a group of known species that share continuity without regard to discontinuity with other organisms. That is, it may be either part or all of a holobaramin. So, for example, dogs could be seen as a monobaramin from the holobaramin of the dog kind which also includes wolves.
- Apobaramin — An apobaramin is a group of known species that are bounded by discontinuity without regard to internal continuity. That is, it may be one or more complete holobaramins. For example, all plants together would form an apobaramin since (in creationist theory) they were not a single kind of plant at the moment of their creation (at least fruit-bearing plants and grass can be distinguished) but there is no single holobaramin that includes both plants and animals.
- Polybaramin — A polybaramin is an artificial group of known species that share continuity with organisms outside the group and discontinuity occurs within the group. That is, it consists of parts of two or more holobaramins and should be avoided, as it is comparable to a polyphyletic taxon in conventional systematics. For example, the mammals currently alive in North America would form a polybaramin.