Editing Institute for Creation Research (section)

===Criticism from old Earth creationists===
[[Old Earth creationism|Old Earth creationists]] are opposed to the ICR. [[Gary North (economist)|Gary North]] opposes the ICR on the grounds that they think the second principle of [[thermodynamics]] contradicts evolution, and John W. Robbins considers the ICR's activities a "fraud".<ref name=Pigliucci/> The old-Earth creationist organization [[Answers In Creation]] criticizes the ICR,<ref name="AnCreation">{{cite web | url=http://www.answersincreation.org/rebuttal/icr/institute_for_creation_research.htm | author=Answers In Creation | author-link=Answers In Creation | title=Creation Science Rebuttals: Institute for Creation Research | access-date=October 18, 2008 | archive-date=January 11, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111071458/http://www.answersincreation.org/rebuttal/icr/institute_for_creation_research.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> including a critical review by [[Kevin R. Henke]] of the ICR's dating claims.<ref name="Henke">{{cite web | url=http://www.answersincreation.org/rebuttal/icr/institute_for_creation_research.htm | author=Kevin R. Henke, Ph.D. | title=Young-Earth Creationist 'Dating' of a Mt. St. Helens Dacite: The Failure of Austin and Swenson to Recognize Obviously Ancient Minerals | work=[[Answers In Creation]] | access-date=October 18, 2008 | archive-date=January 11, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111071458/http://www.answersincreation.org/rebuttal/icr/institute_for_creation_research.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> Henke concluded that the ICR's "research" was improperly conducted and "was unsuccessful in adequately separating the volcanic glass from the much older minerals".<ref name="Henke"/> Another creationist opponent of ICR and its doctrine is [[Hugh Ross (creationist)|Hugh Ross]], who accepts the scientific consensus of a [[Age of the Earth|4.54 billion year old Earth]] and is critical of ICR's cosmological models as well as their attempts to solve the starlight problem.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/humphreys_debate_statement.shtml |title=Exchanges Between Dr. Hugh Ross and Dr. Russell Humphreys |access-date=November 6, 2008 |author=Hugh Ross and Russell Humphreys |date=August 2002 |publisher=Reasons to Believe |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827181645/http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/humphreys_debate_statement.shtml |archive-date=August 27, 2008 }}</ref>