Editing Institute for Creation Research (section)

{{Short description|Creationist organization}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{primary sources|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox university
|name = Institute for Creation Research
|image_name= File:ICR new logo.jpeg
|established = 1970
|type =[[Young Earth creationist]] [[Creationist apologetics|apologetics]]
|founder = [[Henry M. Morris]]
|president = Randy Guliuzza
|chairman = Richard Bliss
|city =[[Dallas]]
|state =[[Texas]]
|country =[[United States]]
|faculty = 8 full time<ref name = dallas/>{{Update inline|date=January 2022}}
|students = (online classes) either about 30 or more than 50, depending on source<ref name = dallas >{{cite news |first= Holly |last= Hacker |title= Creation college seeks state's OK to train teachers |url= http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/121507dnmetcreation.2b0d011.html  |newspaper= Dallas Morning News |date= December 15, 2007 |access-date= January 4, 2008 }}</ref><ref name=austin>{{cite news|url=http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/15/1215creationism.html |title=Creationist institute seeks certificate to operate master's program in Texas |access-date=January 7, 2008 |last=Eileen E. Flynn |first=Scott |date=December 15, 2007 |newspaper=Austin American-Statesman }}{{dead link|date=March 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
||website = [http://www.icr.org www.icr.org]}}

The '''Institute for Creation Research''' ('''ICR''') is a [[creationist apologetics]] institute in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], that specializes in media promotion of [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] [[creation science]] and interpretation of the [[Genesis creation narrative]] as a historical event.<ref name="Williams2013">{{cite book|author=William F. Williams|title=Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vH1EAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT190|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1135955229|page=190}}</ref><ref name="Gordin2012">{{cite book|author=Michael D. Gordin|title=The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZL5iSDWts0kC&pg=PA137|year=2012|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0226304434|page=137}}</ref> The ICR adopts the [[Bible]] as an [[Biblical inerrancy|inerrant]] and literal documentary of scientific and historical fact as well as religious and moral truths, and espouses a [[Young Earth creationism|Young Earth creationist]] worldview.<ref name="NCSE">{{Cite web |url=https://ncse.ngo/young-earth-creationism |title=Young Earth Creationism |website=National Center for Science Education |language=en |access-date=April 29, 2020}}</ref> It [[creation–evolution controversy|rejects]] [[evolutionary biology]], which it views as a corrupting moral and social influence and threat to religious belief.<ref name="Numbers 2006 318">{{harvnb|Numbers|2006|p=318}}</ref> The ICR was formed by [[Henry M. Morris]] in 1972 following an organizational split with the Creation Science Research Center (CSRC).<ref>{{harvnb|Numbers|2006| pp = 313–315}}</ref>

Its work in the field of creation science has been rejected by [[mainstream science|science]], but has been significant in shaping creationist thought in the [[United States]] by introducing creation science through [[fundamentalism|fundamentalist]] churches and religious schools, and by engaging in public debates against supporters of evolution.<ref name = Larson>{{Cite book
 | last= Larson
 | first= Edward J.
 | author-link= Edward Larson
 | publication-date= 2006
 | title= Evolution
 | publisher= Modern Library
 | page= 368
 | isbn = 978-0812968491
 | oclc=70826907
 | year= 2006
}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Numbers|2006|pp = 316–317}}</ref><!---Neither text restricts the scope of influence to "creationists"; the ICR credited with influencing majority public approval for so-called "balanced treatment" and "just a theory" thinking--> The ICR also offers [[Higher education accreditation|unaccredited]] [[graduate school|graduate level]] programs in Biblical Apologetics, including a minor in Creation Research.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ncse.com/news/2010/09/icr-concedes-defeat-over-its-graduate-school-006160 |title=ICR concedes defeat over its graduate school|publisher=[[National Center for Science Education]]}}</ref> The ICR also operates the [[ICR Discovery Center for Science & Earth History]] museum in Dallas, Texas.<ref name="WFAA">{{cite web |last1=Panicker |first1=Jobin |title=Inside the Dallas Museum Where Faith Meets Science |date=April 19, 2019 |url=https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/inside-the-dallas-museum-where-faith-meets-science/287-253a5519-bd1b-4506-8362-af9d0c69f138 |access-date=May 1, 2020}}</ref>