On the other hand, there are many evolutionists—especially
among those paleontologists
who are trying to understand
the ubiquity of gaps between kinds in the
fossil record—who realize that this assumption
probably is wrong. For example,
a widely used textbook on macroevolution
insists that:
Macroevolution is decoupled from
microevolution.6
The Bible does not say explicitly what
the limits of variation within the created
kinds (or “baramins”) may be, although
the repeated reference in Genesis 1 to reproducing
“after their kinds” seems to
suggest interfertility as a key. The term
“baramin,” incidentally, is a word coined
from the Hebrew bara (“create”) and min
(“kind”).