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'''''Gay Pride!!!'''''
[[Image:Ken Ham press.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Ken Ham]]
'''Answers in Genesis''' is a non-profit [[young earth creationist]] organization that is dedicated to "defending the [[Bible]] from the very first verse". Its president is [[Ken Ham]], who was a former public school science teacher, and once worked for the [[Institute for Creation Research]] before founding Answers in Genesis in the [[United States]].
Answers in Genesis in the United States has a state-of-the-art [[Creation Museum]] which opened on May 28, 2007, admitting more than 4,000 visitors on its first day. The Answers in Genesis website won the "Ministry Website of the Year" award in 2006 from the National Religious Broadcasters out of 1,400 possible recipients, and received about 45,000 site visits per day in 2006.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0118nrb.asp</ref>
== Dispute with Creation Ministries International ==
In late 2005, Answers in Genesis in the United States, with its sister organization in the [[United Kingdom]] withdrew from the group of sister AiG organizations.
As they had been sharing the one web-site, run by the American ministry, this effectively forced the remaining organizations in [[Australia]] (the parent organization), [[New Zealand]], [[Canada]], and [[South Africa]] to rebrand, as [[Creation Ministries International]] (CMI).
Answers in Genesis in America stopped distributing ''Creation'' magazine and the peer-reviewed ''Journal of Creation'' (both published by the Australian ministries), switching subscribers to the new ''Answers'' magazine published by the American ministry.
CMI claims that this was unethical, unlawful, and harmed their ministry.
After failing to obtain a satisfactory resolution on the dispute, CMI began legal proceedings against AiG (U.S.) in May 2007.<ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.biz/lawsuit_justification.html Why CMI-Australia is holding AiG-US legally accountable for its actions]</ref>
In August 2007 the two parties met in [[Hawaii]] in an attempt to resolve the dispute, and reached verbal agreement on a settlement.
However, in putting the agreement in writing, CMI claims that AiG subsequently effectively rewrote it, reneging on the verbal agreement.
CMI have intimated that they will resume the legal proceedings.<ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.biz/?page=breakdown Breakdown]</ref>
While Answers in Genesis has chosen to not discuss the lawsuit on their website, they do offer a perspective into the decision to create separate organizations and state that while there were philosophical differences in how the organizations were to be run, that both organizations continue to have the same belief in Creationism and the parting was due to how to best present that message. AiG also discusses the discontinuation of ''Creation'' magazine in favor of ''Answers''.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/about/history</ref>
As is common in disputes where no resolution has been found, the presentations of CMI and AiG in describing what occurred have a different emphasis on events.
== References ==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.answersingenesis.org Answers in Genesis] (official site)
*[http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/default.htm No Answers in Genesis] (anti-creationist)
* [http://www.creationontheweb.biz/?page=breakdown Breakdown]—About the breakdown of the Hawaii agreement between AiG and CMI.
* [http://www.creationontheweb.biz/?page=briese_committee_menu The Briese committee of inquiry, Mark 2] A third-party investigation of the dispute between AiG and CMI.
[[Category:Young Earth Creationism]]
[[Category:Christian Organizations]]