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Speciation and the Created Kinds

Key articles

• Variation, information and the created kind
• Variation and natural selection versus evolution (from Refuting Evolution)
• Argument: Natural selection leads to speciation (from Refuting Evolution 2)
• Ligers and wholphins? What next?
• Speedy species surprise
• Eat your Brussels sprouts!

What do creationists mean by ‘created kinds’? Were these the same as animals in our world today?

• What does min mean?
• Sheep and goats? Since when?
• Trilobites on the Ark? Hugh Ross s latest bungles on the created kinds
• ‘Fast mouse evolution’ claims
• ‘A parade of mutants’
• Australian dingo: a wolf in dog’s clothing
• Resurrecting a ‘prehistoric’ horse
• Zenkey, zonkey, zebra donkey
• Comparative cytogenetics and chromosomal rearrangements

Has creationist research found any specific examples of animals that are in the same baramin?

• Hebrew Scriptures as an aid to developing a creationist taxonomy
• A baraminology tutorial with examples from the grasses (Poaceae)
• Identification of species within the sheep/goat kind (Tsoan monobaramin)
• Identification of species within the cattle monobaramin (kind)
• Karyotypic and allelic diversity within the canid baramin (Canidae)
• Identification of a large sparrow-finch monobaramin in perching birds (Aves: Passeriformes)

What is speciation? Does it take millions of years to occur?

• Brisk Biters—fast changes in mosquitoes astonish evolutionists, delight creationists
• Darwin’s Finches: Evidence supporting rapid post-Flood adaptation
• Dogs breeding dogs
• Genetic engineers unwind species barrier
• The Heliconius hybrid butterfly: speciation yes, evolution no

What about the evolutionary claim that genetic information is gained during speciation?

• Hox (homeobox) Genes—Evolution’s Saviour?
• Latin Lizards: Logos vs the Lottery
• Lost World of Mutants Discovered
• Bears across the world!
• Speciation Conference brings Good News to Creationists

Related Q&A pages

• Mutations
• Natural Selection
• Genetics