The New Road

Baramins

I love it when nuts have to create bogus science-ey type stuff to justify their bogosity. Take creation science. Which is this whole idea of Earth being 6,000 years old. Obviously that needs some science-ey sounding terms and what not. So in comes baraminology. (I hope I spelled that right because Firefox doesn't know how to spell it, which kinda tells you something right off. Anyway...)

Baraminology is a science (?) of figuring how to categorize things (conservatives are big on the whole them 'n' us thing). It's all boring bullshit up until the this section:

Baramin Distance

To refine this method, the concept of "Baramin Distance" was proposed. The initial study by Robinson and Cavanaugh tested several methods on the Catarrhine primates, including genetic tests and tests based on ecology and morphology. However, one criterion for determining a baramin is whether scripture says the two groups are separate, so methods that did not separate humans from primates were rejected.

Basically it's saying that people wanted to actually test this bullshit. So they came up with experimental methods. But the experiments that didn't produce the results that they wanted. Like which said humans were close to primates, were rejected.

Mmm.... That's some tasty science. If the facts don't fit the hypothesis, throw out the facts.

Oh, yeah, and to add insult to injury, the Conservapedia (?) has an entry on baraminology that goes on to attempt to separate whites from 'negroes' using this odd semantic bullshit.