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=== Institute for Creation Research ===

=== Institute for Creation Research ===

Henry M. Morris and John C. Whitcomb Jr.'s influential ''The Genesis Flood'' argued that creation was literally 6 days long, humans lived concurrently with dinosaurs, and that God created each kind of life, was published in 1961.<ref>{{hnb|Larson|2004|p=255}},{{hnb|Numbers|1992|p=xi,200-208}}</ref>  With publication, Morris became a popular speaker, spreading anti-evolutionary ideas at fundamentalist churches, colleges, and conferences.<ref>{{hnb|Larson|2004|p=255}}</ref>  Morris setup up the Creation Science Research Center (CSRC), an organization dominated by baptists, as an adjuct to the Christian Heritage College.<ref>{{hnb|Numbers|1992|p=284}}</ref>  The CSRC rushed publication of biology text books that promoted creationism, and also published other books such as Kelly Segrave's sensational ''Sons of God Return'' that dealt with UFOlogy, flood geology, and demonology.<ref>{{hnb|Numbers|1992|p=284-285}}</ref>  These efforts were against the recommendations of Morris, who urged a more cautious and scientific approach.<ref>{{hnb|Numbers|1992|p=284}}</ref>  Ultimately, the CSRC broke up, and Morris founded the Institute for Creation Research.  Morris promised that the ICR, unlike the CSRC, would be controlled and operated by scientists.<ref>{{hnb|Numbers|1992|p=286}}</ref>.  During this time, Morris and others who supported flood geology adopted the scientific sounding terms ''scientific creationism'' and ''creation science''.<ref>Quoting {{hnb|Larson|2004|p=255-256}}:  "Fundamentalists no longer merely denounced Darwinism as false; they offered a scientific-sounding alternative of their own, which they called either 'scientific creationism (as distinct from religious creationism) or 'creation science' (as opposed to evolution science."</ref>  The flood geologists effectively co-opted "the generic creationist label for their hyperliteralist views".<ref>{{hnb|Larson|2004|p=254-255}}, {{hnb|Numbers|1998|p=5-6}}</ref>  Previously, ''Creationism'' was a generic term describing a philosophical perspective that presupposes the existence of a supernatural creator.<ref>{{hnb|Hayward|1998|p=11}}</ref>.

Henry M. Morris and John C. Whitcomb Jr.'s influential ''The Genesis Flood'' argued that creation was literally 6 days long, humans lived concurrently with dinosaurs, and that God created each kind of life, was published in 1961.<ref>{{hnb|Larson|2004|p=255}},{{hnb|Numbers|1992|p=xi,200-208}}</ref>  With publication, Morris became a popular speaker, spreading anti-evolutionary ideas at fundamentalist churches, colleges, and conferences.<ref>{{hnb|Larson|2004|p=255}}</ref>  Morris setup up the Creation Science Research Center (CSRC), an organization dominated by baptists, as an adjuct to the Christian Heritage College.<ref>{{hnb|Numbers|1992|p=284}}</ref>  The CSRC rushed publication of biology text books that promoted creationism, and also published other books such as Kelly Segrave's sensational ''Sons of God Return'' that dealt with UFOlogy, flood geology, and demonology.<ref>{{hnb|Numbers|1992|p=284-285}}</ref>  These efforts were against the recommendations of Morris, who urged a more cautious and scientific approach.<ref>{{hnb|Numbers|1992|p=284}}</ref>  Ultimately, the CSRC broke up, and Morris founded the Institute for Creation Research.  Morris promised that the ICR, unlike the CSRC, would be controlled and operated by scientists.<ref>{{hnb|Numbers|1992|p=286}}</ref>.  During this time, Morris and others who supported flood geology adopted the terms ''scientific creationism'' and ''creation science''.<ref>{{hnb|Larson|2004|p=255-256}}</ref>  The flood geologists effectively co-opted "the generic creationist label for their hyperliteralist views".<ref>{{hnb|Larson|2004|p=254-255}}, {{hnb|Numbers|1998|p=5-6}}</ref>  Previously, ''Creationism'' was a generic term describing a philosophical perspective that presupposed the existence of God.<ref>{{hnb|Hayward|1998|p=11}}</ref>.

==The current controversy==

==The current controversy==