Activities and Goals of the Institute for Creation Research

One of the leading creationist organizations is the Institute for Creation Research (ICR). Through the Creation Life Publishing Company, the ICR is the leading publisher of creation science material. Henry M. Morris is the Director of the ICR and Duane Gish is Associate Director (Nelkin, 1977, 66). Duane Gish (1978) in his public school edition textbook on creation science and evolution, defines creation as "the bringing into being by a supernatural Creator of the basic kinds of plants and animals by the process of sudden, or fiat, creation" (p. 40). The Institute for Creation Research (ICR), is a research division of Christian Heritage College founded in 1970 and sponsored by the Scott Memorial Baptist Church. In 1972, the church purchased a monastery on 30 acres of land east of San Diego in order to build a parochial high school and college (Nelkin, 1982).

Henry Morris, in April of 1972, with a group of other scientists, formed the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) located in California. The Institute for Creation Research was for several years a research division of Christian Heritage College, a liberal arts college formally founded in 1970 which has a full undergraduate curriculum leading to degrees in many areas, including biology, physics, and education (Morris, 1984, 236).

The first science staff consisted of Drs. Henry Morris, John Morris, Duane Gish

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required to vote between the two theories and the one that gets the majority vote is taken to be the "correct" theory. (McInerney and Moore, 1993). These seems a quite unique approach to indoctrination. The ICR and the Teaching of Biology and Evolution The theory of evolution requires the existence and regularity of at least some laws of nature, such as the laws of chemical combination. And, to explain how the necessary atoms were available to form the biological molecules necessary for the evolution of life requires reliance on other laws of nature from the physical sciences (Chaisson, 1981). The theory of evolution attempts to explain how successive forms of life evolved by specifying the natural laws, such as principles of biochemistry, genetics, and cellular biology, that were and are involved in this process. Therefore, evolution does appeal to and rely on natural law. There is no need for supernatural forces and miracles to explain the development of life from primitive forms to more advanced forms using the theory of evolution. In fact, this is exactly what disturbs many people about evolution. The view of evolution from the Institute of Creation Research goes thus: "If man is an evolved animal, then th
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