These are just a few of the research questions that we are exploring here at CORE. Our research emphasizes five components: design, natural evil, speciation, biogeography, and biosystematics. Design is concerned with the how and why of God's design. In this area we work most closely with philosophers and theologians. Explaining the origins of predators, pathogens, parasites, and poisons is the focus of our work in natural evil. In the area of speciation, we work to understand how the animals and plants that God created gave birth to the animals and plants of our modern world. Biogeography is the science concerned with the places animals and plants live. We try to understand how the world was re-filled after the devastation of the Flood. Biosystematics is the discipline concerned with organizing and classifying the created kinds. For a more complete discussion of the CORE research model, see Dr. Wood's book Understanding the Pattern of Life.