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{{Short description|Nonprofit organization promoting young Earth creationism}} | |||
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{{Infobox organization | |||
| name = Answers in Genesis | |||
| image = File:Answers in Genesis logo adopted 2016.png | |||
| formation = {{start date and age|1994}} | |||
| type = Fundamentalist Christian apologetics organization | |||
| status = Nonprofit | |||
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| headquarters = ], U.S. | |||
| leader_title = President | |||
| leader_name = ] | |||
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| revenue = ]34,739,452 (2018)<ref name="charitynavigator.org">{{cite web | |||
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|title = Charity Navigator Rating – Answers in Genesis | |||
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|publisher = ] | |||
|location = Glen Rock, New Jersey | |||
|access-date = March 10, 2016 | |||
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| expenses = US$26,776,172 (2018)<ref name="charitynavigator.org" /> | |||
| website = {{url|answersingenesis.org}} | |||
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'''Answers in Genesis''' ('''AiG''') is an American ] ] ]. It advocates ] on the basis of its ], ] interpretation of the ] and the Bible as a whole. Out of belief in ], it rejects the results of ]s that contradict their view of the ] and instead supports ] ]. The organization sees ] as incompatible with the Bible and believes anything other than the young Earth view is a compromise on the principle of biblical inerrancy. | |||
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'''Answers in Genesis''' ('''AiG''') is a not-for-profit Christian ] ministry with a particular focus on ], and a literal (they prefer the term ] ) interpretation of the first chapters of the ]. They state that this is 'secondary in importance to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ' . | |||
AiG began as the Creation Science Foundation in 1980, following the merger of two Australian creationist groups. Its name changed to Answers in Genesis in 1994, when ] founded its United States branch. In 2006, the branches in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa split from the US and UK to form ]. In 2007, AiG opened the ], a facility that promotes young-Earth creationism, and in 2016, the organization opened the ], a ]-themed amusement park. AiG also publishes websites, magazines, journals, and a streaming service, and its employees have published books. | |||
AiG employs a staff exclusively of Christian ]s, some who have earned ] degrees from secular universities in various sciences including ], ], and ]. | |||
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==Organization== | ||
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AiG was started in ] in the late 1970s by John Mackay and ] and others who believed that the established church's teaching of the Bible was being compromised in the face of ever-increasing attacks by secularists. The organisation was then known as Creation Science Supplies, later changed to Creation Science Foundation (CSF). | |||
Answers in Genesis resulted from the merging of two Australian creationist organizations in 1980, one led by John Mackay and ] (Creation Science Supplies and Creation Science Educational Media Services) and the other by ] (Creation Science Association). The organization later became known as Answers in Genesis. It is based in ], and has international offices in Australia, Canada, Peru, and the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web |title=Contact International Offices |url=https://answersingenesis.org/international/contact/ |website=Answers in Genesis |access-date=February 24, 2020}}</ref> Following turmoil in 2005,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ncse.com/news/2007/06/answers-genesis-legal-turmoil-001080 |title=Answers in Genesis in legal turmoil |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=June 21, 2007 |publisher=] |location=Berkeley, California |access-date=April 6, 2008}}</ref> the AiG network split in 2006. The US and UK branches retained the AiG name and control of the AiG website under Ham's leadership. The Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African branches rebranded themselves as Creation Ministries International (CMI). In 2007, CMI filed suit against AiG-USA alleging a variety of wrongdoings, including publicly defaming their organization.<ref name="McKenna_2007">{{cite news |last=McKenna |first=Michael |date=June 4, 2007 |title=Biblical battle of creation groups |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/biblical-battle-of-creation-groups/story-e6frg6nf-1111113672622 |newspaper=] |location=Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia |publisher=] |access-date=September 30, 2014}}</ref> In April 2009, the ministries reached a settlement and ended their dispute.<ref name="NCSE 2009">{{cite web |url=https://ncse.ngo/creationist-legal-dispute-resolved |title=Creationist legal dispute resolved |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=April 29, 2009 |publisher=] |access-date=May 21, 2021 }}</ref> | |||
In 1978, a separate Australian organisation started by Dr. ] began the magazine ''Ex Nihilo'', from the Latin phrase ''Creatio ex nihilo'' meaning "Creation out of nothing". Soon after, CSF took over production of ''Ex Nihilo'', and later renamed it ''Creation Ex Nihilo'' and eventually simply ''Creation''. In 1984, CSF started the ''Ex Nihilo Technical Journal'' for more in-depth analysis of creation issues. It was later renamed ''Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal'' then simply ''TJ''. ''TJ'' is a refereed journal, reviewed mainly by scientists in the creationist community. It has a primarily theological (as opposed to scientific) purpose, and its guidelines begin with | |||
:TJ is dedicated to upholding the authority of the 66 books of the Bible especially in the area of origins. All members of the Editorial Team adhere to the Answers in Genesis (AiG) Statement of Faith and most papers will be designed to support this. | |||
In 1987 Ken Ham was seconded by CSF to work for the ] in the ], then in 1994 left ICR to found Answers In Genesis (USA). Later that year, CSF in Australia and other countries changed their names to Answers In Genesis. | |||
With offices in many English-speaking countries, AiG publishes books and multimedia resources, as well as a website featuring articles and papers. AiG is also expanding into the non-English speaking world with translations and outreach ministry. | |||
== The Creation Museum == | |||
]'' fossil skeleton showing large serrated teeth. AiG believes these teeth were originally used to eat vegetatation.]] | |||
In the late ] and early ], AiG in the United States started planning and constructing a ''Creation ]'' in ], ], near the ], which will be used to explain the history of the World according to ] beliefs. According to Ham, "One of the main reasons we moved there was because we are within one hour's flight of 69 per cent of America's population" . | |||
Amongst its various displays and exhibits, the museum is being designed to include many life-size and even animatronic (animated and motion-sensitive) ]s, large movie screens showing a young-earth history of the world, a technologically superior ] depicting ] and creationist interpretations of ], and a life-size model of ] housing a conference center and hotel rooms. There is special attention being paid to the ]s being depicted in the ]. The '']'' will be depicted as ]. | |||
The expected cost of the building, interior designs and exhibits is around US $25 million. As of November 2005, they have raised $18.3 million in donations . AiG's success in raising donations for the museum was reported in the press and on skeptical websites , where it was contrasted with the failure of the ] to find corporate sponsorship for their ] exhibit. | |||
All museum staff applicants are required to supply a written statement confirming their faith, beliefs regarding creation, and support for the AiG statement of faith . | |||
The museum is expected to open in the spring of 2007. | |||
== Facts and figures == | |||
* AiG offices exist in ], ], ], the ], ], and the ]. | |||
* In 2000, their quarterly ''Creation'' magazine had subscribers in about 140 countries, and 60,000 copies of each issue were being produced. | |||
* In September 2004, their website, which is also translated into many foreign languages, had 35,000–47,000 visits per day. | |||
== Teachings and beliefs == | |||
===Methodology=== | |||
AiG describes their ] as "plain" (or sometimes "grammatical-historical") and why they believe it is more precise than "literal": | |||
:Simply put, our bottom line is that the proper interpretation of Scripture is to take it “plainly”, meaning “as the author intended it to be understood by the original audience”. This incorporates a literal interpretation of a literal context, poetic interpretation of poetic context, etc. This is covered in depth in the article | |||
:E.g., with Genesis, we can tell it is meant to be historic narrative because it has all the grammatical features of Hebrew narrative, e.g., the first verb is a ''qatal'' (historic perfect), and the verbs that move the narrative forward are ''wayyiqtols'' (''waw'' consecutives); it contains many “accusative particles” that mark the objects of verbs; and terms are often carefully defined. | |||
===Apologetic method=== | |||
AiG emphasizes a ] rather than an evidentialist approach to ]. This is not to say that they deny the role of scientific evidence, but that they believe that all scientists start with ] or presuppositions, which govern how the evidence is interpreted. Thus their view is a form of ]. | |||
They believe, for example, a scientist with the presupposition of billions of years will interpret the Grand Canyon as an example of slow, drawn-out erosion. In contrast, they suggest a ] will see this as a rapid formation by catastrophic quantities of water. AiG claims that an understanding of the legitimate biases people hold helps us to better discern between actual evidence and possibly faulty interpretations of the evidence. AiG says that neither view can be scientifically proved nor disproved, and they seek to show the evidence better fits with creation than evolution. | |||
AiG tries to present some scientific arguments to support their primarily theological views of origins and advices "holding loosely" to such scientific arguments believing that only events recorded in the ] should be accepted with certainty. They avoid many of the ]al methods used by many of their contemporaries. Many of their arguments against biological evolution are similar to those of the ] movement. Critics charge that they argue against evolution rather than for creationism and are trying to lend credence to supernatural origins of life simply by discrediting natural origins. Many creationists would agree, and claim that they are merely using the ] and ], and that many evolutionists have done the same, i.e. argue against creation (why would God have done it this way?") rather than for evolution. | |||
==AiG's views on cosmology and astronomy== | |||
AiG believes that all stars and planetary bodies were likely formed around 6000 years ago, contemporaneously with Earth. They dispute the ] and ] theories of the beginning of the ] that require its age to be billions of years. | |||
A young universe is challenged by the ] which presents the dilemma of how we can see light from objects millions or billions of ] away in a young universe. Some creationists have attempted to answer this with explanations involving God ] or by claiming that the speed of light was faster in the past, an argument also referred to as ]. AiG rejects both of these proposed solutions and prefers a model proposed by physicist and creationist ]. Supporters of Humphreys' model, mostly ], claim that it uses the ] to explain how billions of years could have passed in space while only a single day passed on earth. This ] requires that our ] lie near the center of the universe. They believe they are supported by claims of quantized red shifts which have been subsequently ] by ]s. Thus they refuse to accept the ], similar to the views ], a view that AiG officially rejects. | |||
==AiG's views on moral and social issues== | |||
===Science education=== | |||
AiG does not support laws or school board standards that would force the teaching of creationism in public schools. It is their position that forcing a teacher to present the theory of creation will only result in it being distorted by those who don't believe in it.. Instead of trying to change how evolution is taught in the public schools in what AiG CEO ] calls "top-down attempts" by "battering away at the education system, or the politicians, or the media", he would prefer to see influence driven by the "changing the hearts and minds of people within ‘God’s army’, the Church". AiG is opposed to what they consider censorship of educators who want to teach evidence they consider contradictory to the theory of evolution or why there is ] regarding this subject. | |||
In June 2006, Answers in Genesis launched the ''Answers'' magazine in the United States and United Kingdom, followed by the '']'' in 2008, which was widely criticized in the media<ref>{{cite news |last=Randerson |first=James |date=January 27, 2008 |title=God's journal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2008/jan/27/godsjournal |newspaper=] |type=blog |location=London |access-date=September 30, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Goldstein |first=Bonnie |date=February 13, 2008 |title=Peer-Reviewing the Bible|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hot_document/features/2008/peerreviewing_the_bible/_2.html |magazine=] |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=] |access-date=September 30, 2014}}</ref> and scientific circles.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Brumfiel |first=Geoff |date=January 23, 2008 |title=Creationists launch 'science' journal |journal=] |location=London |publisher=] |volume=451 |issue= 7177|pages=382–383 |doi=10.1038/451382b |issn=0028-0836 |pmid=18216813|bibcode=2008Natur.451R.382B |doi-access=free }}</ref> Also in 2006, the ] awarded Answers in Genesis their Best Ministry Website award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://content.nrb.org/press/2006awards.htm |title=NRB 2006 Media Award Winners |website=NRB Convention & Exposition |publisher=] |location=Manassas, Virginia |access-date=September 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060808183215/http://content.nrb.org/press/2006awards.htm|archive-date=August 8, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> In May 2007, AiG launched the ] in the United States. The museum received criticism from the ] and petitions of protest from the scientific community.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ncse.com/news/2007/05/reactions-to-creation-museum-001073 |title=Reactions to creation 'museum' |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=May 25, 2007 |publisher=National Center for Science Education |location=Berkeley, California |access-date = April 6, 2008}}</ref> | |||
===Life issues=== | |||
==Views and activities== | |||
AiG takes a strong ] stance on ] because they regard individual life as beginning at ]. Thus they argue that the circumstances of the fertilization are irrelevant to its status as a human life which should be protected, so oppose abortion for rape and any other case, except to save the life of the mother. They are also strongly opposed to ], and ] research, but support ] research which does not require the death of fetuses. | |||
From the outset, ] did not share the interest of other groups promoting ] in aiming to produce evidence supporting ],<ref name="Trollinger"/> although Answers in Genesis still maintains that "creation science is real science".<ref>{{cite web | title = Creation Science |url= https://answersingenesis.org/creation-science/ |website= Answers in Genesis |access-date= April 12, 2019 | quote = Creation Science Is Real Science}}</ref> Instead, Answers in Genesis focuses on presenting evangelicalism as an all-out battle of their biblical ] against a perceived ] scientific worldview.<ref name="Fletcher">{{cite book |last1= Fletcher|first1= John|title= Preaching to Convert: Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age|date= 2013|publisher= University of Michigan Press|isbn= 9780472119158|page= 193|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=BZe4AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA193|language= en}}</ref> Ham's message has had three central points: | |||
* that teaching of ] is an evil causing damage to society; | |||
===Homosexuality=== | |||
* that the ] of the ] give a precise description of the process of creation of the universe and provide direct instruction on the organization of society; | |||
* that proper Christians must engage in a total conflict battling against ] ]. | |||
Answers in Genesis messages promote central young-Earth creationist doctrines, including the concepts of literal Creation of the Earth in six 24-hour days and ]. Still, they focus mainly on accepting the authority of their particular ] as a precondition for eternity in heaven. They present this as choosing one's personal ultimate authority for truth, with God's Word and human reason being the two possible options, and those choosing the latter over the former liable to perishment.<ref name="Trollinger">{{cite book|last1= Trollinger|first1= Susan L.|last2=Trollinger|first2= William Vance Jr.|editor1-last= Gutjahr|editor1-first= Paul|title= The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America|date= 2017|publisher= Oxford University Press|isbn= 9780190258856|pages= 223–225|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=23o7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA223|language= en|chapter= Chapter 31:The Bible and Creationism}}</ref> They hence introduce the concept of "biblical reasoning", where one is "never to attempt to reason in opposition to the Word of God", and thus claim that this biblical reasoning and biblical faith "work very well together".<ref>{{cite web |title= Faith vs. Reason|url= https://answersingenesis.org/apologetics/faith-vs-reason/ |website= Answers in Genesis |access-date= April 12, 2019}}</ref> | |||
AiG defends marriage as one man and one woman for life, based on and , which ] cited in and . In claiming that ] is a ], AiG has cited writings by the ] in and as well as the ] given to ] which called for the punishment by death for those who commit homosexual acts in . AiG believes the punishments described in the Old Testament Law, such as Leviticus 20:13, were for the Jews up to the time of Christ and have stated that they "reject the implication that we are proposing any sort of ill-treatment of ]s, or rejection of the sinner, as opposed to the sin." | |||
The Answers in Genesis organization rejects key scientific facts and theories as established by ], ], geology, ], and ] and argues that the universe, the Earth and life originated about 6,000 years ago.<ref>{{cite news|last1= Kennerly|first1= Britt|title= Paleontologists brought to tears, laughter by Creation Museum|url= https://phys.org/news/2009-06-paleontologists-brought-laughter-creation-museum.html|work= Phys.org|date= June 30, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1= Bielo|first1= James S.|editor1-last= Gutjahr|editor1-first= Paul|title= The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America|date= 2017|publisher= Oxford University Press|isbn= 9780190258856|page= 489|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=23o7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA489|language= en|chapter= Chapter 31:Performing the Bible}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1= Ohehir|first1= Andrew|title= Archaeology from the dark side|url= https://www.salon.com/2005/08/31/archaeology/|work= Salon|date= August 31, 2005}}</ref> (Creationism beliefs reject ] of nature and of the origin of the universe in favor of the ], and the ] has ruled that creationism is religion.<ref>], . {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240512112205/https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/6024/chapter/1#ii|date=2024-05-12}}. "In 1987 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that creationism is religion, not science, and cannot be advocated in public school classrooms."</ref>) | |||
===Evolution and race=== | |||
A book published by one of AiG's employees in 2006 accused ] of using subtle tactics to slip "evolutionary content" into '']'', '']'' and '']'', affirming that "As Christians we need to reflect the Bible's standards and not Hollywood's perverted version of reality."<ref>], </ref> | |||
AiG also connects belief in evolutionary theory with the ] and ] of ] and the ], as well as ]. In dealing with Christendom's own violent history, the group claims that anyone who used the Bible to justify atrocities (such as during the ], the ] of the New World, ]s or the burning of tens of thousands of women as witches) was clearly misinterpreting the Bible's intent (e.g., Jesus says to love your enemies and bless them that curse you ]). | |||
Merged with this approach is the concurrence between AiG and some scientists that "]" is a meaningless construct, which AiG sees as supported by scripture. Using this line of argument, AiG argues that Creationism, along with other Biblical teachings, is the only true answer to the social problem of racism, and that evolution has (and still does) promote racism . | |||
In 2020, AiG launched its own streaming service, Answers.tv, intended as an alternative to ], ], and other streaming platforms.<ref>{{cite web | last1=Klett | first1=Leah MarieAnn | title=Answers in Genesis launches faith-focused streaming service amid COVID-19 shutdown | url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/answers-in-genesis-launches-faith-focused-streaming-service-amid-covid-19-shutdown.html | date=May 1, 2020 | work=] | access-date=January 23, 2021}}</ref> | |||
To support this view, AiG cites selections from early twentieth century biology textbooks (such as ''Hunter's Civic Biology'', the textbook used in the ]) which illustrate the close connection between theories of ] and theories of evolution. | |||
AiG has objected to the ], saying "Sadly, many in this particular camp (sometimes ignorantly) have actually compromised Scripture by accepting the secular ideas being pushed by the JWST media at NASA (i.e., the big bang and evolution), thus rejecting the plain (biblical) reading of Genesis 1 and instead reinterpreting the days of creation to long ages. This is an unbiblical way of thinking that essentially elevates man's fallible ideas as the ultimate standard (i.e., humanism) over the infallible Word of God".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dickerson |first=Dane |date=2022-04-14 |title=Physicists and Theologians Stir as the James Webb Space Telescope Project Advances |url=https://www.wvnews.com/news/around_the_web/physicists-and-theologians-stir-as-the-james-webb-space-telescope-project-advances/article_a584f7d8-e2e2-5f3b-bf0a-64593d3f26ef.html |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=] |language=en}}</ref> | |||
See also ] | |||
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===Creation Museum=== | ||
{{Main|Creation Museum}} | |||
] | |||
AiG's Creation Museum is a museum displaying a ] worldview and ]. The facility has received much criticism from the scientific and religious communities, as well as from cultural commentators.<ref>{{cite news |last= Jarman |first= Josh |date= May 25, 2007 |title= Creating a stir |url= http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/faith_and_values/2007/05/25/creation.ART_ART_05-25-07_B6_5J6Q39G.html |newspaper= ] |location= Columbus, Ohio |publisher= Dispatch Printing Company |access-date= October 7, 2014 |archive-date= December 27, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181227133149/https://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/faith_and_values/2007/05/25/creation.ART_ART_05-25-07_B6_5J6Q39G.html |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Lovan |first= Dylan T. |date= May 19, 2007 |title= Educators question Creation Museum |url= http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/05/19/met_129149.shtml |newspaper= ] |location= Augusta, Georgia |agency= ] |access-date= October 7, 2014}}</ref> The Creation Museum opened May 27, 2007, at a cost of $27 million raised entirely by private donations. The displays were created by Patrick Marsh, known for work on ] attractions for ] and ].<ref>{{cite news |last= Rothstein |first= Edward |author-link= Edward Rothstein |title= Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/24crea.html |newspaper= ] |type= Museum review |date= May 24, 2007 |access-date= April 6, 2008}}</ref> | |||
], a British writer and critic, described the museum as "battling science and reason since 2007", writing: "This place doesn't just take on evolution—it squares off with geology, anthropology, paleontology, history, chemistry, astronomy, zoology, biology, and good taste. It directly and boldly contradicts most {{nowrap|-onomies}} and all {{nowrap|-ologies,}} including most theology."<ref>{{cite magazine |last= Gill |first= A. A. |author-link= A. A. Gill |date= February 2010 |title= Roll Over, Charles Darwin! |url= http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/02/creation-museum-201002 |magazine= ] |location= New York |publisher= ] |issn= 0733-8899 |access-date= November 30, 2012}}</ref> | |||
It is AiG's position that God is sovereign and is in control of every event that occurs. AiG admits that tragic events such as the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center and the Indian Ocean tsunami which killed hundred of thousands of people while having direct connections to terrorists or shifting tectonic plates are under the control of God who they believe is "the sovereign of the universe—the One who is continually upholding the entire cosmos with the Word of His power".. AiG rejects the implications that untimely deaths and suffering are always the direct result of an individual's sins and cite passages from the Bible as examples where these were sometimes linked to a greater purpose of God. | |||
In 2012 a report noted that "public fascination" with the Creation Museum was "fading".<ref name="AttendanceDrops">{{cite news |last= McNair |first= James |date= November 7, 2012 |title= Creation Museum Attendance Drops for Fourth Straight Year |url= http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-26546-creation_museum_atte.html |newspaper= ] |location= Nashville, Tennessee |publisher= SouthComm |access-date= October 7, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141013092325/http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-26546-creation_museum_atte.html |archive-date= October 13, 2014 |url-status= dead }}</ref> In November 2012 AiG reported that attendance for the year ended June 30 came to 254,074, which represented a 10 percent drop from the previous year and the attraction's "fourth straight year of declining attendance and its lowest annual attendance yet".<ref name="AttendanceDrops" /> By mid-2015, 2.4 million people had visited the museum (about 340,000 visitors over seven years),<ref>{{cite book | |||
===Culture and media=== | |||
|last1= Trollinger | |||
|first1 = Susan L. | |||
|last2 = Trollinger | |||
|first2 = William Vance Jr. | |||
|year= 2016 | |||
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lOf-CwAAQBAJ | |||
|title= Righting America at the Creation Museum | |||
|publisher= JHU Press | |||
|page = 13 | |||
|isbn = 9781421419534 | |||
}}</ref> and in 2017, AiG reported that in the year since its other attraction, the Ark Encounter, opened, the Creation Museum saw over 800,000 visitors, nearly triple the annual average of 300,000 visitors.<ref>{{cite news | last1=Wartman | first1=Scott | title=Creationist Parks Still a Potent Draw for Visitors and Controversy | url=http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/07/07/creationist-parks-still-potent-draw-visitors-controversy/425293001/ | date=July 7, 2017 | newspaper=] | access-date=July 9, 2017 | quote=Answers in Genesis, the nonprofit ministry that operates both the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter, claims the Creation Museum has averaged 300,000 visitors a year since it opened in 2007. More than 800,000 have come since the Ark Encounter opened last year, said Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, based in Petersburg in Boone County. But there's no way to fact check these claims since AiG is a private organization.}}</ref> | |||
===Ark Encounter=== | |||
AiG has accused ] of using "subtle tactics" to slip in "evolutionary content". Movies and television programs they have criticized for doing this include ], ], ], ] and ]. . | |||
{{Main|Ark Encounter}} | |||
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Answers in Genesis opened Ark Encounter, a ], in ] on July 7, 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last= Lovan |first= Dylan |title= Noah's ark of biblical proportions ready to open in Kentucky |agency= Associated Press |date= July 5, 2016}}</ref> The centerpiece of the park is a full-scale model of ] at {{convert|510|ft|m}} long and {{convert|81|ft|m}} high. After a visit to Ark Encounter,<ref>{{cite AV media |last1= Nye|first1= Bill |last2= Ham |first2= Ken |name-list-style=amp|title= Nye/Ham: The Second Debate Premiere |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPLRhVdNp5M |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/PPLRhVdNp5M |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |url-status=live|date= March 13, 2017 |work= YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ], who had previously debated Ham, described his experience as "much more troubling or disturbing than thought it would be" and stated that "on the Ark's third deck, every single science exhibit is absolutely wrong".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/bill-nye-calls-ark-encounter-disturbing-argues-every-single-science-exhibit-absolutely-wrong-after-visit-166624/ |title=Bill Nye Calls Ark Encounter 'Disturbing,' Argues 'Every Science Exhibit Absolutely Wrong' After Visit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029112645/https://www.christianpost.com/news/bill-nye-calls-ark-encounter-disturbing-argues-every-single-science-exhibit-absolutely-wrong-after-visit-166624/ |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |work=] |date=July 18, 2006}}</ref> In December 2016, for the holiday season, AiG lit the Ark with ] colors, aiming to "reclaim the symbol from the gay rights movement" and to remind viewers of the ].<ref>{{cite news | last1= Wartman | first1= Scott | title= Kentucky Ark Builder Wants to Take Rainbow Back | url= https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/12/23/kentucky-ark-builder-wants-take-rainbow-back/95802416/ | date= December 23, 2016 | work= ] | access-date= January 17, 2017}}</ref> | |||
By late October 2016, over 400,000 people had visited the attraction.<ref>{{cite news | last1= Caproni | first1= Erin | title =Flood of Visitors Lifts Ark Encounter to Unexpected Numbers | url= http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2016/10/25/flood-of-visitors-lifts-ark-encounter-to.html | date= October 25, 2016 | newspaper= ] | access-date= November 19, 2016 | quote = Answers in Genesis, which created the park, said it expects 1.2 million people to visit in the ark's first year.}}</ref> This contrasts a state study that projected the attraction would receive 325,000 to under 500,000 visitors in the first year.<ref>{{cite news | last1= Blackford | first1= Linda | title= Study: Ark Encounter Could Bring Nearly 500,000 Visitors in First Year | url= http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article44548512.html | date= January 21, 2015 | newspaper= ] | access-date= November 19, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last1= Loftus | first1= Tom | title= Noah's Ark Park Attendance Projections Cut in Half | url= https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/21/noahs-ark-park-attendance-projections-cut-in-half/22131911/ | date= January 21, 2015 | work= ] | access-date= November 19, 2016}}</ref> AiG reported that the Ark Encounter in its first year of operation attracted over 1 million visitors and aggregated 1.5 million total visitors for both the Ark and the Creation Museum.<ref name=oneyear> | |||
==Tax-exempt status== | |||
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==Workforce== | |||
The website of has reported that in 2003, AiG-US "did '''not''' meet all of the Bureau's accountability standards" (emphasis in original) . Bill Wise, then CEO of AiG, answered that this was due to a "miscommunication, understanding regarding document submittals back in August of 2002." (ibid ) AiG-US is now listed as meeting each of the ] 19 standards for charitable accountability . | |||
In 2007 about 160 people including a chaplain worked at the Creation Museum (a division of AiG, so these were AiG employees) and another 140 people worked at the attached AiG headquarters.<ref name="Slevin">{{cite news|last1=Slevin|first1=Peter|title=A Monument To Creation|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/26/AR2007052600908.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=May 27, 2007}}</ref><ref name="Vindy">{{cite news|last1=Associated Press|title=Museum merges God, science|url=http://www.vindy.com/content/national_world/358296894445314.php/|work=Vindy.com|date=May 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926224204/http://www.vindy.com/content/national_world/358296894445314.php/|archive-date=September 26, 2007}}</ref><ref name="Coexist">{{cite news |url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=176926 |title=Dinosaurs, humans coexist in creationist museum |website=NineMSN |date=January 15, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070118215637/http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=176926 |archive-date=January 18, 2007 }}</ref> Each permanent employee of AiG including people who work at the museum must sign a statement of faith "in order to preserve the function and integrity of the ministry", indicating that they believe in young Earth creationism and the other teachings of Answers in Genesis. These include "Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation", "the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman", "the ] was an actual historic event" and "no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.answersingenesis.org/about/faith |title=Statement of Faith |website=Answers in Genesis |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006112942/https://answersingenesis.org/about/faith/ |archive-date=October 6, 2021 |access-date=May 28, 2007}}</ref> When applying for work a written statement of one's beliefs is required along with résumé and references.<ref name="Clark">{{cite news |first=Ryan |last=Clark |url=http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070415/NEWS0103/704150358 |title=Creation Museum touches lives |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207033538/http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20070415%2FNEWS0103%2F704150358 |archive-date=February 7, 2009 |publisher=The Enquirer |location=Cincinnati, Ohio |date=April 15, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/employment.asp |title=Jobs at Answers in Genesis |website=Answers in Genesis |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421033113/http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/employment.asp |archive-date=April 21, 2014 |access-date=May 28, 2007}}</ref> In 2007, '']'' reported that the Creation Museum employed between 10 and 20 security guards armed with ] ] handguns and three certified ].<ref name=security>{{cite news|last = Eigelbach|first = Kevin|title = God, Guns, Guards & Dogs|newspaper = The Kentucky Post|date = May 28, 2007|page = A1}}</ref> | |||
Creationist geologist ] started working with AiG in 2007<ref>{{cite news|last1=Knight|first1=Cameron|title=Creation Museum researcher sues feds over Grand Canyon permit|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/13/creation-museum-researcher-sues-feds-over-grand-canyon-permit/320900001/|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |via=''USA Today''|date=May 12, 2017|language=en}}</ref> as its director of research.<ref>{{cite news | last1=Zhou | first1=Naaman | title=Creationist Uses Trump Order to Get Permission to Take Rocks from Grand Canyon | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/07/australian-creationist-uses-trump-order-to-get-permission-to-take-rocks-from-grand-canyon | date=July 7, 2017 | newspaper=] | access-date=July 13, 2017}}</ref> | |||
== Criticism == | |||
] is a site maintained by members of ] led by retired civil servant John Stear for the purpose of rebutting AiG. | |||
==Reception== | |||
In June 2005, AiG-Australia staff scientists debated a team from the Australian Skeptics online on ]'s web diary section of the '']'' website. | |||
], which is supported by AiG, is a pseudoscience that "lacks the central defining characteristic of all modern scientific theories".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Albert|first1=Leon|title="Scientific" Creationism as a Pseudoscience|journal=Creation Evolution Journal|volume=6|issue=2|page=27|url=https://ncse.com/cej/6/2/scientific-creationism-as-pseudoscience}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ruse|first1=Michael|title=Creation Science is not Science|journal= Science, Technology, & Human Values|date=July 15, 1982|volume=7|issue=3|pages=10–18|doi=10.1177/016224398200700313|s2cid=143503427}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Gordin|first1=Michael D.|title=The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe|date=2012|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226304434|page=137|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZL5iSDWts0kC&pg=PA137|language=en}}</ref> Scientific and scholarly organizations, including the ], ], ], ], and the ] have issued statements against the teaching of creationism.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ncse.com/media/voices/science |title=Statements from Scientific and Scholarly Organizations |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=National Center for Science Education |location=Berkeley, CA |access-date=September 6, 2008}}</ref> The National Center for Science Education, a science advocacy group, criticize AiG's promotion of non-science.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ncse.com/taking-action/project-steve |title=Project Steve |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=October 17, 2008 |publisher=National Center for Science Education |location=Berkeley, California |access-date=September 6, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Scott |first=Eugenie C. |author-link=Eugenie Scott |date=January–February 1997 |title=Anti-evolutionists Form, Fund Think Tank |url=http://ncse.com/rncse/17/1/anti-evolutionists-form-fund-think-tank |journal=Reports of the National Center for Science Education |location=Berkeley, California |publisher=National Center for Science Education |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=25–26 |issn=2158-818X |access-date=September 6, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ncse.com/creationism/general/pbss-evolution-creationist-backlash |title=PBS's 'Evolution': The Creationist Backlash |last=Branch |first=Glenn |author-link=Glenn Branch |date=September 1, 2001 |publisher=National Center for Science Education |location=Berkeley, California |format=PDF |access-date=October 1, 2014}}</ref> In direct response to AiG, ] is a website maintained by members of the ] and retired civil servant John Stear for the purpose of rebutting claims made by AiG.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.noanswersingenesis.org.au/ |title=No Answers in Genesis! |website=No Answers in Genesis |publisher=] Science and Education Foundation |access-date=April 6, 2008}}</ref> | |||
Astronomer ]'s organization ], a ] organization, is a critic of Answers in Genesis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/other_papers/is_oec_heretical.shtml |title=Old-Earth Creationism: A Heretical Belief? |last=Moore |first=Greg |date=August 23, 2007 |website=Reasons To Believe |location=Glendora, California |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012235505/http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/other_papers/is_oec_heretical.shtml |archive-date=October 12, 2007 |access-date=February 19, 2008}}</ref> ], which promotes ], has stated that the views of Answers in Genesis have "force many thoughtful Christians to lose their faith", while The Biologos Foundation "protect faith".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://biologos.org/blog/saving-faith |title=Saving Faith |last=Giberson |first=Karl |author-link=Karl W. Giberson |date=June 15, 2009 |publisher=] |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=May 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503170933/http://biologos.org/blog/saving-faith |archive-date=May 3, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2011 skeptic ] listed it as #5 on his "Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites" list.<ref>{{Skeptoid|id=4283|number=283|title= Top 10 Worst Anti–Science Websites |access-date=October 23, 2020|date=November 8, 2011|quote=5. Answers in Genesis}}</ref> | |||
AiG has compiled a list of "scientists alive today who accept the biblical account of creation" to show that it is possible for a modern working scientist to accept creationism. They use the criteria that each member of the list must have a doctorate in a scientific field. | |||
===Richard Dawkins interview=== | |||
In response to this, and similar lists, the (US) ]'s '']'' (after ]) is a tongue in cheek list of scientists who accept evolution, whose first name is Stephen (or some derivative, such as Steven, or Stephanie). The idea being that evolution is so well accepted by mainstream scientists that even a list of Steves will outnumber any creationist list.) AiG's list currently has 154 signatories as opposed to 637 "Steves" on the NCSE list. | |||
In 1998, Answers in Genesis filmed an interview with ], a prominent evolutionary biologist at ], resulting in a controversial video that AiG posted on its website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2004/08/publicintellectualspoll/ |title=Public Intellectuals Poll |access-date=March 9, 2008 |last=Herman |first=David |year=2004 |work=Prospect |archive-date=November 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106105034/http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2004/08/publicintellectualspoll/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Dawkins addressed it in the essay: "The 'Information Challenge{{'"}}, published in '']'' in 2003. The "suspiciously amateurish" interview included, according to Dawkins, "the kind of question only a creationist would ask in that way" (namely, to "give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome"). Realizing that he had been duped, Dawkins, at his admission, was angry at the thought and initially refused to answer the question but relented and continued the interview. Dawkins wrote: "My generosity was rewarded in a fashion that anyone familiar with fundamentalist tactics might have predicted. When I eventually saw the film a year later, I found that it had been edited to give the false impression that I was incapable of answering the question about information content. In fairness, this may not have been quite as intentionally deceitful as it sounds. You have to understand that these people really believe that their question cannot be answered!"{{sfn|Dawkins|2003|loc=|ps=}} | |||
The Australian Skeptics wrote that AIG edited the film to give the appearance that Dawkins was unable to "give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome" and that a segment that shows him pausing for 11 seconds was a film of him considering whether to expel the interviewer from the room for not revealing her creationist sympathies at the outset. Dawkins reported to the Australian Skeptics that the interviewer shown in the finished film was not the same person who had originally asked the questions. Dawkins and Barry Williams also said that AIG had subsequently changed the question to make it look like Dawkins, who answered the original question put to him, was unable to answer.<ref name="ASkeptics">{{cite journal |last=Williams |first=Barry |year=1998 |title=Creationist Deception Exposed |url=http://www.skeptics.com.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/magazine/The%20Skeptic%20Volume%2018%20%281998%29%20No%203.pdf |journal=The Skeptic |location=Sydney |publisher=] |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=7–10 |issn=0726-9897 |access-date=October 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016053110/http://www.skeptics.com.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/magazine/The%20Skeptic%20Volume%2018%20%281998%29%20No%203.pdf |archive-date=October 16, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
==Controversy over Interview with Richard Dawkins== | |||
===Anti-atheism billboards=== | |||
In 1998, AiG filmed an interview ], a prominent evolutionary biologist and Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Extracts from the interview were included on a video ''From a Frog to a Prince'', distributed by AiG. The interview, which can be viewed at an AiG web page appears to show Dawkins nonplussed and pausing for 11 seconds when asked by the interviewer to name one example of an evolutionary process which increases the information content of the ]. | |||
In the spring of 2009, Answers in Genesis posted a billboard in Texas with a young boy aiming a gun towards the viewer with the words, "If God doesn't matter to him, do you?" The same image was used in a TV ad.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/christianist-groups-billboard-compare |title=Christianist Group's Billboard Compares Atheism To Murder |last=Belle |first=Nicole |date=June 2, 2009 |website=] |type=Blog |access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref> In 2014, the organization purchased space in ] to run a 15-second video advertisement addressed "To all of our intolerant liberal friends". According to AiG, the goal of the billboard was to "challenge the secularists who are increasingly intolerant of the Christian message". The Christian '']'' described the ad as "passive-aggressive" and "weirdly combative".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.relevantmagazine.com/slices/heres-controversial-billboard-answers-genesis-displaying-times-square-tonight |title=Here's the Controversial Billboard 'Answers in Genesis' Is Displaying in Times Square Tonight |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814140133/http://www.relevantmagazine.com/slices/heres-controversial-billboard-answers-genesis-displaying-times-square-tonight |archive-date=August 14, 2016 |website=] |date=December 31, 2014}}</ref> | |||
===Great Homeschool Conventions=== | |||
In an article by the ] , the film was alleged to have been carefully edited to give the false appearance that Dawkins was unable to answer the question, whereas in fact the segment that shows him pausing for 11 seconds was actually film of him considering whether to expel the interviewer from the room (for not revealing her creationist sympathies at the outset). Dawkins related to the Australian Skeptics how the interviewer shown in the finished film was not the same person as the person who had originally asked the questions. Furthermore, the question had been subsequently changed to make it look like Dawkins, who was answering the original question put to him, was unable to answer. | |||
In March 2011, the Board of Great Homeschool Conventions, Inc. (a young-Earth Christian group) voted to disinvite Ken Ham and AiG from future conventions due to Ham's words about other Christians making "unnecessary, ungodly, and mean-spirited statements that are divisive at best and defamatory at worst". The controversy stemmed from Ham's commentary on the position expressed by ], of ], who advocated a symbolic rather than a literal interpretation of the fall of Adam and Eve. Writing on his blog, Ham accused Enns of espousing "outright liberal theology that totally undermines the authority of the Word of God", which led to his invitation being revoked.<ref name="BannedfromConvention">{{cite news |last=Blackford |first=Linda B. |date=March 24, 2011 |title=Founder of Creation Museum banned from convention |url=http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article44085801.html |newspaper=Lexington Herald-Leader |location=Sacramento, California |publisher=The McClatchy Company |access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref> | |||
===Legal action by Creation Ministries International=== | |||
AiG has responded in an article . According to their account, the raw footage shows that Dawkins, who had previously been informed of the interviewer's creationist sympathies, was asked the same question and could not answer. The video merely has the exact question, faint on the raw footage, re-stated for clarity. | |||
On May 31, 2007, Creation Ministries International filed a lawsuit in ] against Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis seeking damages and accusing him of "unbiblical/unethical/unlawful behaviour" in his dealings with the Australian organization.<ref name="McKenna_2007" /> Before the split, the Australian group had been producing periodicals, ''Creation'' magazine and ''Journal of Creation'', which were then distributed in other countries by local groups. The Australian group had no access to the list of subscribers in the US. AiG discontinued the distribution arrangement, and produced a new magazine of their own, called ''Answers'', and represented that to subscribers as a replacement.<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |url=http://www.christianfaithandreason.com/june_creationmag.html |title=Fellow Christians Aggrieved by Business Practices of Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis |journal=Christian Faith and Reason Magazine |location=Spring Hill, TN |publisher=Guerrilla Enterprise Management |date=May 27, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627030651/http://www.christianfaithandreason.com/june_creationmag.html |archive-date=June 27, 2007 |access-date=September 30, 2014}}</ref> Creation Ministries International claimed $252,000 (US) in damages for lost revenue by misleading and deceptive conduct in relating to lost subscriptions.<ref name="legalclaim">{{cite web |url=http://www.creationontheweb.biz/statement-of-claim.pdf |title=Statement of Claim (4690/07 Supreme Court of Brisbane) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513052009/http://www.creationontheweb.biz/statement-of-claim.pdf |archive-date=May 13, 2008 |access-date=July 18, 2007}} Photocopy supplied at the CMI website; see also . {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715041911/http://apps.courts.qld.gov.au/esearching/FileDetails.aspx?Location=BRISB&Court=SUPRE&Filenumber=4690%2F07 |date=July 15, 2020 }}.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Mead |first1=Andy |last2=Farrar |first2=Lu-Ann |date=June 17, 2007 |title=Museum group sued by fellow creationists |url=http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/100183.html |newspaper=Lexington Herald-Leader |location=Sacramento, California |publisher=The McClatchy Company |page=A1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070620155007/http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/100183.html |archive-date=June 20, 2007 |access-date=October 7, 2014}}</ref> | |||
An editorial analysis of the situation, including reference to estranged co-founder John Mackay's allegations in 1986 of necrophilia and witchcraft against Ken Ham's personal secretary is offered in an account in the ''Reports of the National Center for Science Education''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lippard |first=Jim |author-link=Jim Lippard |date=November–December 2006 |title=Trouble in Paradise: Answers in Genesis Splinters |url=http://ncse.com/rncse/26/6/trouble-paradise |journal=Reports of the National Center for Science Education |location=Berkeley, California |publisher=National Center for Science Education |volume=26 |issue=6 |pages=4–7 |issn=2158-818X |access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref> In February 2009, the ] ordered Australian-based Creation Ministries International into arbitration with Answers in Genesis over copyrights and control of affiliates in other countries.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lovan |first=Dylan T. |date=February 14, 2009 |title=Court: Creationists should settle outside court |url=http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=865750&lang=eng_news |newspaper=] |location=Taipei |agency=Associated Press |access-date=April 6, 2008}}</ref> In April 2009, the ministries reached a settlement and ended their dispute.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://creation.com/dispute-settled |title=dispute-settled |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Creation.com |publisher=Creation Ministries International |access-date=October 10, 2014}}</ref> | |||
==Definitions, probability and natural selection== | |||
AiG focuses heavily on proving the odds of the ] are virtually impossible, where life is defined as the first cell. However, biologists and AiG agree that ] is not a theory of ] but rather a theory of the variability in life through natural processes. | |||
==See also== | |||
AiG has pointed out that while the idea of ] of complex life was all but abandoned after ]'s work, ] remains one of the key conjectures of ]. Even though modern scientists see a difference between the two ideas, AiG maintains that they are the same. To this end, they have cited the probability of a ] spontaneously coming into existence as more than 1 in 10<sup>1057800</sup> (referring to combinatorial analysis). They state that this event is an outstandingly improbable event, which would appear to require a larger explanation than 'mere' chance. Further discussion on ] examines the ability for mere chance to create even . | |||
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Critics of creationism have pointed out that the mechanisms of evolution including ] cumulate small probabilities and such creationist combinatorial analysis does not account for the true possibilities of life evolving to become a cell. Such probability arguments are criticized as artificial limiting of biological and prebiotic mechanisms in the development of life. | |||
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==References== | |||
AiG staffers are aware of the concept of ] about which they have written at a number of articles . They state that "''...It cannot be stressed enough that what natural selection actually does is get rid of information.'', citing one example of natural selection removing genes for short fur in cold climates. However, critics cite mechanisms such as ] and ] as examples where new information is available for the natural selection of new functions. | |||
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* {{cite book |last=Dawkins |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Dawkins |year=2003 |title=A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love |location=Boston |publisher=] |isbn=0-618-33540-4 |lccn=2003050859 |oclc=52269209 |title-link=A Devil's Chaplain }} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Denton |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Denton |year=1986 |title=Evolution: A Theory in Crisis |edition=1st U.S. |location=Bethesda, Maryland |publisher=Adler & Adler |isbn=0-917561-05-8 |lccn=85013556 |oclc=12214328 |title-link=Evolution: A Theory in Crisis }} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Kerby |first=Carl |year=2006 |title=Remote Control: The Power of Hollywood on Today's Culture |location=Green Forest, Arkansas |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-89051-491-7 |lccn=2006934885 |oclc=76904854 |ref=Kerby 2006}} | |||
* {{cite book |author=National Academy of Sciences |author-link=National Academy of Sciences |year=1999 |title=Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences |url=https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6024/science-and-creationism-a-view-from-the-national-academy-of |edition=2nd |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=] |isbn=0-309-06406-6 |lccn=99006259 |oclc=43803228 |access-date=October 2, 2014 |ref=NAS 1999 |url-access=registration }} | |||
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* Old-earth creationist/theistic-evolution–sympathizing site allegedly demonstrating numerous errors in the work of Answers in Genesis | |||
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Nonprofit organization promoting young Earth creationism "AiG" redirects here. For the insurance company, see AIG. For other uses, see AIG (disambiguation).
Formation | 1994; 31 years ago (1994) |
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Type | Fundamentalist Christian apologetics organization |
Legal status | Nonprofit |
Purpose | |
Headquarters | Petersburg, Kentucky, U.S. |
President | Ken Ham |
Revenue | US$34,739,452 (2018) |
Expenses | US$26,776,172 (2018) |
Website | answersingenesis |
Answers in Genesis (AiG) is an American fundamentalist Christian apologetics parachurch organization. It advocates young Earth creationism on the basis of its literal, historical-grammatical interpretation of the Book of Genesis and the Bible as a whole. Out of belief in biblical inerrancy, it rejects the results of scientific investigations that contradict their view of the Genesis creation narrative and instead supports pseudoscientific creation science. The organization sees evolution as incompatible with the Bible and believes anything other than the young Earth view is a compromise on the principle of biblical inerrancy.
AiG began as the Creation Science Foundation in 1980, following the merger of two Australian creationist groups. Its name changed to Answers in Genesis in 1994, when Ken Ham founded its United States branch. In 2006, the branches in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa split from the US and UK to form Creation Ministries International. In 2007, AiG opened the Creation Museum, a facility that promotes young-Earth creationism, and in 2016, the organization opened the Ark Encounter, a Noah's Ark-themed amusement park. AiG also publishes websites, magazines, journals, and a streaming service, and its employees have published books.
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Answers in Genesis resulted from the merging of two Australian creationist organizations in 1980, one led by John Mackay and Ken Ham (Creation Science Supplies and Creation Science Educational Media Services) and the other by Carl Wieland (Creation Science Association). The organization later became known as Answers in Genesis. It is based in Petersburg, Kentucky, and has international offices in Australia, Canada, Peru, and the United Kingdom. Following turmoil in 2005, the AiG network split in 2006. The US and UK branches retained the AiG name and control of the AiG website under Ham's leadership. The Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African branches rebranded themselves as Creation Ministries International (CMI). In 2007, CMI filed suit against AiG-USA alleging a variety of wrongdoings, including publicly defaming their organization. In April 2009, the ministries reached a settlement and ended their dispute.
In June 2006, Answers in Genesis launched the Answers magazine in the United States and United Kingdom, followed by the Answers Research Journal in 2008, which was widely criticized in the media and scientific circles. Also in 2006, the National Religious Broadcasters awarded Answers in Genesis their Best Ministry Website award. In May 2007, AiG launched the Creation Museum in the United States. The museum received criticism from the National Center for Science Education and petitions of protest from the scientific community.
Views and activities
From the outset, Ken Ham did not share the interest of other groups promoting creation science in aiming to produce evidence supporting young Earth creationism, although Answers in Genesis still maintains that "creation science is real science". Instead, Answers in Genesis focuses on presenting evangelicalism as an all-out battle of their biblical worldview against a perceived naturalistic scientific worldview. Ham's message has had three central points:
- that teaching of evolution is an evil causing damage to society;
- that the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis give a precise description of the process of creation of the universe and provide direct instruction on the organization of society;
- that proper Christians must engage in a total conflict battling against atheistic humanism.
Answers in Genesis messages promote central young-Earth creationist doctrines, including the concepts of literal Creation of the Earth in six 24-hour days and effects of a global flood. Still, they focus mainly on accepting the authority of their particular literal reading of the Bible as a precondition for eternity in heaven. They present this as choosing one's personal ultimate authority for truth, with God's Word and human reason being the two possible options, and those choosing the latter over the former liable to perishment. They hence introduce the concept of "biblical reasoning", where one is "never to attempt to reason in opposition to the Word of God", and thus claim that this biblical reasoning and biblical faith "work very well together".
The Answers in Genesis organization rejects key scientific facts and theories as established by archeology, cosmology, geology, paleontology, and evolutionary biology and argues that the universe, the Earth and life originated about 6,000 years ago. (Creationism beliefs reject natural causes and events in scientific explanations of nature and of the origin of the universe in favor of the supernatural, and the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that creationism is religion.)
A book published by one of AiG's employees in 2006 accused Hollywood of using subtle tactics to slip "evolutionary content" into SpongeBob SquarePants, Lilo & Stitch and Finding Nemo, affirming that "As Christians we need to reflect the Bible's standards and not Hollywood's perverted version of reality."
In 2020, AiG launched its own streaming service, Answers.tv, intended as an alternative to Netflix, Disney+, and other streaming platforms.
AiG has objected to the James Webb Space Telescope, saying "Sadly, many in this particular camp (sometimes ignorantly) have actually compromised Scripture by accepting the secular ideas being pushed by the JWST media at NASA (i.e., the big bang and evolution), thus rejecting the plain (biblical) reading of Genesis 1 and instead reinterpreting the days of creation to long ages. This is an unbiblical way of thinking that essentially elevates man's fallible ideas as the ultimate standard (i.e., humanism) over the infallible Word of God".
Creation Museum
Main article: Creation MuseumAiG's Creation Museum is a museum displaying a Young-Earth creationist worldview and pseudoarchaeology. The facility has received much criticism from the scientific and religious communities, as well as from cultural commentators. The Creation Museum opened May 27, 2007, at a cost of $27 million raised entirely by private donations. The displays were created by Patrick Marsh, known for work on Universal Studios Florida attractions for King Kong and Jaws.
A. A. Gill, a British writer and critic, described the museum as "battling science and reason since 2007", writing: "This place doesn't just take on evolution—it squares off with geology, anthropology, paleontology, history, chemistry, astronomy, zoology, biology, and good taste. It directly and boldly contradicts most -onomies and all -ologies, including most theology."
In 2012 a report noted that "public fascination" with the Creation Museum was "fading". In November 2012 AiG reported that attendance for the year ended June 30 came to 254,074, which represented a 10 percent drop from the previous year and the attraction's "fourth straight year of declining attendance and its lowest annual attendance yet". By mid-2015, 2.4 million people had visited the museum (about 340,000 visitors over seven years), and in 2017, AiG reported that in the year since its other attraction, the Ark Encounter, opened, the Creation Museum saw over 800,000 visitors, nearly triple the annual average of 300,000 visitors.
Ark Encounter
Main article: Ark EncounterAnswers in Genesis opened Ark Encounter, a theme-park, in Grant County, Kentucky on July 7, 2016. The centerpiece of the park is a full-scale model of Noah's Ark at 510 feet (160 m) long and 81 feet (25 m) high. After a visit to Ark Encounter, Bill Nye, who had previously debated Ham, described his experience as "much more troubling or disturbing than thought it would be" and stated that "on the Ark's third deck, every single science exhibit is absolutely wrong". In December 2016, for the holiday season, AiG lit the Ark with rainbow colors, aiming to "reclaim the symbol from the gay rights movement" and to remind viewers of the Noahic covenant.
By late October 2016, over 400,000 people had visited the attraction. This contrasts a state study that projected the attraction would receive 325,000 to under 500,000 visitors in the first year. AiG reported that the Ark Encounter in its first year of operation attracted over 1 million visitors and aggregated 1.5 million total visitors for both the Ark and the Creation Museum.
Workforce
In 2007 about 160 people including a chaplain worked at the Creation Museum (a division of AiG, so these were AiG employees) and another 140 people worked at the attached AiG headquarters. Each permanent employee of AiG including people who work at the museum must sign a statement of faith "in order to preserve the function and integrity of the ministry", indicating that they believe in young Earth creationism and the other teachings of Answers in Genesis. These include "Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation", "the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman", "the great Flood of Genesis was an actual historic event" and "no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record". When applying for work a written statement of one's beliefs is required along with résumé and references. In 2007, The Kentucky Post reported that the Creation Museum employed between 10 and 20 security guards armed with .40 caliber Glock handguns and three certified law enforcement canines.
Creationist geologist Andrew A. Snelling started working with AiG in 2007 as its director of research.
Reception
Creation science, which is supported by AiG, is a pseudoscience that "lacks the central defining characteristic of all modern scientific theories". Scientific and scholarly organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, Paleontological Society, Geological Society of America, Australian Academy of Science, and the Royal Society of Canada have issued statements against the teaching of creationism. The National Center for Science Education, a science advocacy group, criticize AiG's promotion of non-science. In direct response to AiG, No Answers in Genesis is a website maintained by members of the Australian Skeptics and retired civil servant John Stear for the purpose of rebutting claims made by AiG.
Astronomer Hugh Ross's organization Reasons To Believe, a progressive creationist organization, is a critic of Answers in Genesis. The BioLogos Foundation, which promotes evolutionary creationism, has stated that the views of Answers in Genesis have "force many thoughtful Christians to lose their faith", while The Biologos Foundation "protect faith". In 2011 skeptic Brian Dunning listed it as #5 on his "Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites" list.
Richard Dawkins interview
In 1998, Answers in Genesis filmed an interview with Richard Dawkins, a prominent evolutionary biologist at Oxford University, resulting in a controversial video that AiG posted on its website. Dawkins addressed it in the essay: "The 'Information Challenge'", published in A Devil's Chaplain in 2003. The "suspiciously amateurish" interview included, according to Dawkins, "the kind of question only a creationist would ask in that way" (namely, to "give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome"). Realizing that he had been duped, Dawkins, at his admission, was angry at the thought and initially refused to answer the question but relented and continued the interview. Dawkins wrote: "My generosity was rewarded in a fashion that anyone familiar with fundamentalist tactics might have predicted. When I eventually saw the film a year later, I found that it had been edited to give the false impression that I was incapable of answering the question about information content. In fairness, this may not have been quite as intentionally deceitful as it sounds. You have to understand that these people really believe that their question cannot be answered!"
The Australian Skeptics wrote that AIG edited the film to give the appearance that Dawkins was unable to "give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome" and that a segment that shows him pausing for 11 seconds was a film of him considering whether to expel the interviewer from the room for not revealing her creationist sympathies at the outset. Dawkins reported to the Australian Skeptics that the interviewer shown in the finished film was not the same person who had originally asked the questions. Dawkins and Barry Williams also said that AIG had subsequently changed the question to make it look like Dawkins, who answered the original question put to him, was unable to answer.
Anti-atheism billboards
In the spring of 2009, Answers in Genesis posted a billboard in Texas with a young boy aiming a gun towards the viewer with the words, "If God doesn't matter to him, do you?" The same image was used in a TV ad. In 2014, the organization purchased space in Times Square to run a 15-second video advertisement addressed "To all of our intolerant liberal friends". According to AiG, the goal of the billboard was to "challenge the secularists who are increasingly intolerant of the Christian message". The Christian Relevant Magazine described the ad as "passive-aggressive" and "weirdly combative".
Great Homeschool Conventions
In March 2011, the Board of Great Homeschool Conventions, Inc. (a young-Earth Christian group) voted to disinvite Ken Ham and AiG from future conventions due to Ham's words about other Christians making "unnecessary, ungodly, and mean-spirited statements that are divisive at best and defamatory at worst". The controversy stemmed from Ham's commentary on the position expressed by Peter Enns, of The BioLogos Foundation, who advocated a symbolic rather than a literal interpretation of the fall of Adam and Eve. Writing on his blog, Ham accused Enns of espousing "outright liberal theology that totally undermines the authority of the Word of God", which led to his invitation being revoked.
Legal action by Creation Ministries International
On May 31, 2007, Creation Ministries International filed a lawsuit in Supreme Court of Queensland against Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis seeking damages and accusing him of "unbiblical/unethical/unlawful behaviour" in his dealings with the Australian organization. Before the split, the Australian group had been producing periodicals, Creation magazine and Journal of Creation, which were then distributed in other countries by local groups. The Australian group had no access to the list of subscribers in the US. AiG discontinued the distribution arrangement, and produced a new magazine of their own, called Answers, and represented that to subscribers as a replacement. Creation Ministries International claimed $252,000 (US) in damages for lost revenue by misleading and deceptive conduct in relating to lost subscriptions.
An editorial analysis of the situation, including reference to estranged co-founder John Mackay's allegations in 1986 of necrophilia and witchcraft against Ken Ham's personal secretary is offered in an account in the Reports of the National Center for Science Education. In February 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ordered Australian-based Creation Ministries International into arbitration with Answers in Genesis over copyrights and control of affiliates in other countries. In April 2009, the ministries reached a settlement and ended their dispute.
See also
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