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Baraminology, ordiscontinuity systematics, is apseudoscience that attempts to provide acreationist alternative toLinnaean taxonomy andcladistics based on aBiblically literalyoung Earth worldview.

Baraminology attempts to solve a major creationist and literalist problem: how to fit two (orseven) ofevery kind of animal onNoah's Ark. The 10 million or more known species of animal could not have fit, let alone survived, on any plausible boat. Baraminology attempts to redefine the meaning of the word "kind", as found in the book ofGenesis, to mean a much wider group, known as abaramin, which would reduce the number of animals on the ark.

Rather thancommon descent, in which all life on earth is descended from a single ancestor, baraminology posits multiple special creation events at the origin of each baramin.

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