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Is baraminology bogus?

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If you follow creationist websites and publications, you may have noticed a numbers of papers and articles that are sharply critical of statistical baraminology over the past few years.  For those who don't follow these things, statistical baraminology is shorthand for a set of analytical tools that I've used for more than 20 years to explore the creationist concept of the "created kind."  I've focused on these methods because they help me to explore fossil creatures, which cannot be addressed by the traditional hybridization method for identifying created kinds.  I've tried to examine interesting case studies, like fossil horses, four-legged "whales," and feathered dinosaurs.  For the past thirteen years, I've been nearly exclusively focused on hominins (so-called fossil "ape men"), but I've also published a significant survey of mammal baraminology.  Last year, I addressed a very significant challenge to the methods , and I was e