Bariminology and Taxon Correlation in Journal of Evolution

Dr. Phil Senter has published a paper: "Using creation science to demonstrate evolution 2: morphological continuity within Dinosauria" in The Journal of Evolutionary Biology that uses the technique of Taxon Correlation from Bariminology to classify the various groups of dinosaurs into eight kinds. I haven't read the paper yet, but this BBC Nature article has a pretty good breakdown, as far as I can tell.Basically, creationists that use bariminology would have to explain the great amount of variation apparant in the fossil record if only eight baramins were created by God. In other words, there would have to have been a significant and accelerated rate of morphological "change" over a couple thousand years to be able to defend this conclusion. (Something which evolution explains albeit over millions of years.)Edited by DBlevins, : No reason given.

Hi DBlevins,Thanks for the information, it sounds like an interesting paper. As I have said before, it is not evolution that is the problem for creationists, it is common decent: how far back in time the branching tree goes, and how many "trunks" there were at the beginning.It is not theory that creationists need to argue against -- it is the objective empirical evidence. Bringing the standard of objective empirical evidence to the center of the debate is a good move.Enjoy.Enjoy.

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