Creation Research Society
The Creation Research Society (German " Society for the Creation Research ") is an organization representing the young-earth creationism. It was founded in 1963 by Henry M. Morris and nine like-minded " scientists ". It is close to the developed by Christian fundamentalists in the U.S. pseudo-science Intelligent Design.
Organization
The management of the Company, the Board of Directors, consisting mainly of professors from different scientific directions at state universities in the United States.
The organization claims to have 1700 members, including 700 voters. Are entitled to vote only members who have at least a master's degree in scientific direction. The membership is the signing of a comprehensive 4 points Statement of Belief ahead:
German translation:
Activities
According to the company are its main features:
- Publication of a quarterly journal
- To develop research with the aim of creationist models of creation and test
- Providing financial resources and research facilities for creationist researchers
- Organizing lectures
The Creation Research Society published since 1964, the peer-reviewed Creation Research Society Quarterly, which is referred to by Library Journal Online as the world's most important creation science journal. The journal publishes research reports on scientific topics that are relevant to the creationism debate. In addition, the bimonthly magazine Creation Matters is published, with articles on a popular science level.
Furthermore, are the Creation Research Society numerous books and multimedia products out of children's book to scientific monographs. The second edition appeared in 2004 High school biology book has since its release in 1974 caused much controversy. It is legal in some U.S. states as a school book, but in many cases because of the separation of church and state is not in public schools.
Controversy
Although for self- representation, the Creation Research Society conducts research, it is generally regarded as non-scientific mission organization. In particular, the signature required by all members of the Statement of Belief can not be reconciled with modern science open-ended. This Statement of Belief plays such as a major role in the judgment in the case " McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education " in 1982. In this trial, in which concerned the admissibility of the teaching of creationism in public schools in the U.S. state of Arkansas, made the U.S. federal judge, after he generally unscientific creationism noted specifically for Creation Research Society, the statement:
The publications of the Creation Research Society are regarded by the established sciences in general as scientifically unsound. Thus, the geologist Kevin R. Henke numerous publications of Young Earth Creationists - even those that appeared in CRS publications such as the " Creation Research Society Quarterly" - tested and it found serious deficiencies. So there is criticism of their publications that often is not clear how the results come about, references are often flawed and would clear falsehoods spread as fact what is more equated with disinformation as with new knowledge. The operated and published by the Creation Research Society and other similar organizations research is therefore classified not only by the overwhelming majority of scientists as bad science or pseudo-science; also representative of a Christian doctrine of creation that accept an old earth, denote the results as unscientific and criticize the young-earth creationists, moreover, that a large number of people have been driven out of the churches by their views.