iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Okay, I personally wouldn't know what it would look like at a genomic level, but the method of testing whether two creatures are within the same holobaramin has been viable hybridization since the mid 40's. Most of the research has been done with grasses though, and not with animals.
You posted a baraminology tutorial a while back (I don't remember exactly where it was, I think maybe from CMI) that denied viable hybridization as being a good measure to define the outside limits of a baramin. It posited that if two organisms could successfully hybridize, they were definitely in the same holobaramin, but that the inverse was not true (two organisms in the same holobaramin would not necessarily be able to hybridize). In fact, if we take successful hybridization as the sole measure of what a baramin is, then we have already demonstrated dozens of examples of organisms crossing baramins, which renders the field moot.
But what do you think of the predictions I proposed? Do they seem reasonable to you? They give testable hypotheses that could be used to falsify either evolution or baraminology, depending on how the results came out.
Go ahead with your spiel. I accept your challenge on the term that you clearly define your terms and show your method of attaining your results.