Answers in Genesis

Answers in Genesis (AiG), headed by Ken Ham and Martyn Iles, is a self-described Christian apologetics ministry which pushes "creation science". They run (into the ground it would seemAiG begs for the cash needed to keep the Creation Museum open.) the Creation "Museum" and Ark Encounter theme-parks in Kentucky. They also publish the Answers Research Journal.
Answers Research Journal
Considered (by some fan-boys) the leaders of creationist "research" online, Answers in Genesis will invariably be linked to by creationists to prove points. If you detect a perceived fallacy in creationism, AiG will have the answer, Talk Origins will have the refutation, and AiG will have the refutation of the refutation (generally just a restatement of the original piece).Online debates on the subject just reduce to Answers in Genesis vs Talk.Origins.
==Position on evolution==
The smart guys at Answers in Genesis, in a truly Orwellian fashion, accept evolution, sort of. As stated in one of their own articles: 
This, by extension, means that species-to-species evolution in the human genus (kind?) is a valid Creationist position ... or not. "Hmmm ... humans and animals arose at much the same time, and there are genetic boundaries. Sounds like what you'd expect to find based on the Genesis account of origins."
"Study: 90% of Species Have a Recent Origin" - Ken Ham on June 7, 2018.
==History==
In 1993, after 7 years in the US working with the Institute for Creation Research, former Australian high-school teacher Ken Ham decided to start a creation science ministry similar to the Creation Science Foundation (now Creation Ministries International) he had founded back in Australia, because he felt that the ICR were too "intellectual" and what was needed was a more layman's approach to teaching creation science. Also, he wanted to sell his magazines, but the ICR would not help him.The History of AiG through mid 2009. answersingenesis.org.
The first snag in the road is that in the US a foundation has to give away money, so he called it the Creation Science Ministries. The second snag was he had no money. According to CMI they gave significant financial support to Ham to start his new US ministry,CMI's about us. while AiG say they needed no such thing and had plenty of money thank you. In 1995, both of Ham's ministries changed their names to become Answers in Genesis-US and Answers in Genesis-Australia. For many years they were pretty much the same organisation, even generating a common Statement of Faith that was supposed to bind the two.
By 2005 a huge split occurred between the two, with the Australian organisation's view that Ham was out of control and egotistical.Lord of the Ring - The Australian, June 05, 2007 The US branch withdrew along with the UK office, taking the naming rights and branding rights with them. AiG-Australia became Creation Ministries International, taking with it all the other non-US offices in Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.
In 2007 AiG opened its now infamous Creation Museum and in 2008, having lost Creation magazine and The Journal of Creation in the split, it started its own creation research journal, Answers Research Journal.Answers Research Journal
==A representative argument from AiG==
The AiG-commissioned comic pictured at right is representative of their approach to science, their method of scientific analysis going something like this:
#Look at the evidence.
#See if it jibes with the Bible.
#If it does, go nuts over it.
#If it does not, it is like Cthulhu: capable of eating people and Bibles. Ignore it.
==A handful of AiG's "arguments"==
*Homosexuals do not exist, since many have a small amount of incidental opposite-sex attraction, and also because many gays (wait for it) enjoy women as friends.Creationism and the Problem of Homosexual Behaviour by Dr. Jerry Bergman, April 1st, 1995, Answers in Genesis
*The distinction between observational and historical science.
*An eyewitness is always better than forensic evidence and math. (Let's see how that one would hold up in court.)Earth’s origin? Ask a living eyewitness! by Ken Ham, January 17th, 2007, Answers in Genesis
*God is real because the Bible is true, because it is the word of God, because... The name of this article is "to all our atheist friends, thank God you are wrong," and AiG did an entire ad campaign on it. It uses the presupposition that the Bible is true and infallible. It also claims that human minds are fallible (so how do they use theirs to determine the Bible isn't?).How Do We Know There Is a God? by Nathan Ham, October 7th, 2016, Answers in Genesis
*Better yet, not only does the site use circular reasoning (while at the same time claiming that the Geological Column involves circular reasoning, talk about hypocrisy coming from people who claim to be working for God),6 Geologic Column by Roger Patterson, January 20th, 2011, Answers in Genesis it admits its own fallacy and fails miserably at trying to defend it.
*"Hilariously Illogical", a smart aleck-y response to a non-creationist. The author states that nothing matters in a materialistic view, and that "evolutionary papers" should be metaphorical, like the Bible is.Hilariously Illogical by Bodie Hodge, September 2nd, 2011, Answers in Genesis
*NASA should stop the SETI program, because the Bible doesn't mention aliens, and even if they do exist, they're all going to hell, because they're not descendants of Adam, and therefore can't be saved."We’ll find a new earth within 20 years” by Ken Ham, July 20th, 2014, Answers in Genesis
==Hatred of other religions==
Answers in Genesis has an collection of articles bashing and distorting other religions. Circular logic is used as "evidence" for their religion, i.e., fundamentalist Christianity.
An example-
Buddhism gets trashed for having no structure. In contrast, the Bible has structure; ergo, it is correct.
The bashing continues with Hinduism.
AiG's fixation on a young earth as the only legitimate interpretation of the Bible conflicts even with most of Christianity, to the extent that such prominent conservative figures as Billy Graham, James Dobson, and Chuck Colson are denounced as "compromisers", or worse.A more complete list of names, with links to AiG source material, can be found on the Wall of Honor, at The Soggy Spaniel website.
Remember, if your religion does not take the Bible literally and/or does not have the Christian God and Jesus, or even if it is Christian and does not take the Bible literally enough, it is incorrect and vain.
==Bad arguments even AiG recognize as bad==
:See also PRATT
Many creationists seem stuck with hundreds of really stupid arguments as to why the world is 6000 years old and the Bible is literally true. Most of these arguments are, of course, utter crap and for the true connoisseur of Young Earth Creationism, it is some of the material developed by Answers in Genesis that is most worthwhile. AiG isn't considered as having some of the best of creationist research for nothing. They do employ people, such as Jason Lisle, who have real qualifications and have genuinely thought this through - although in most cases, not enough actual scientists outdo them with facts. Their "Arguments we think creationists should NOT use", for example, makes interesting - indeed surprising - reading. Their examples of bad creationist arguments include: AIG - Arguments we think creationists should NOT use.
*Darwin recanted on his deathbed.
*Moon dust thickness proves a young moon. (This one was so bad that AiG later recanted it themselves.Moon Dust and the Age of the Solar System, Andrew Snelling and David Rush, April 1, 1993)
*The Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru caught a dead plesiosaur near New Zealand.
*Archaeopteryx is a fraud.
*Darwin mentioned the absurdity of eye evolution in The Origin of Species.
*Evolution is Just a theory.
*Supposed "information loss" in DNA is caused by mutations: a completely made-up argument.
*"If we evolved from apes, why do we still have apes today?"
Many of these Young Earth proofs and arguments have been refuted so often and so easily that AiG really had no choice but to issue an article like this. But you can still find people using such silly and unconvincing arguments; the owners and contributors of most other creationist websites and blogs might do well to read some of these. With their "arguments we don't use" page being one of the more famous ones, they followed it up with 12 Arguments Evolutionists Should Avoid. This page isn't as good as the creationist one; while evolutionists certainly shouldn't use them, you rarely find scientists actually using them at all. Indeed, things like "evolution is a fact like gravity" aren't actually arguments, but rhetoric.AiG - 12 Arguments Evolutionists Should Avoid
==Answers in WTF?==
In spring 2009, AiG managed to get itself into a small(ish) controversy by shifting its publicity focus from creationism to the denigration of atheism in general. This resulted in a billboard and TV advertising campaign featuring a young boy pointing a gun straight at the viewer, stating "If God doesn't matter to him, do you?", thus implying that atheists, agnostics, or basically any non-Christian would be prone to murder.Christianist (sic) Group's Billboard Compares Atheism To Murder by Nicole Belle, June 2nd, 2009, Crooks & Liars AiG claim that this was to highlight school shootings and their so-called links with Darwinism, but it's quite clear that they were just pissed off after atheists decided to get their own billboard.
This attitude of comparing atheism with school shootings is not isolated to their campaign. Their resident cartoonist Dan Lietha has produced a cartoon with very similar content. This indicates that this campaign was a sincere statement of AiG's belief, rather than an intentionally controversial, shock-value publicity stunt.
==Answers in Genesis on science==
In an online publication called "Evolution Exposed", AiG managed to illustrate both its contempt for mainstream science and an innate bias in its "research" in one simple paragraph:
Appealing to modern medical sciences sensibilities; AiG states Adam and Eve did not have navels, having never been in a womb, certainly not Goddess's womb.Did Adam Have a Belly-Button? by Dr. Gary Parker, June 1st, 1996, Answers in Genesis
==Members of Answers in Genesis==
*Ken Ham
*Andrew Snelling
*Jason Lisle
*Buddy Davis
*Paul Chaffey: In addition to being a writer and website administrator for AiGAiG Bio, he also runs the ministry Midwest ApologeticsMidwest Apologetics, teaches "science" at Tri-State Christian School in Galena, IllinoisTri-State Christian Academy, and is the content administrator for the Ark Encounter. He's one of the co-authors of "Old-Earth Creationism on Trial" with Lisle.Old Earth Creationism on Trial
==No Answers in Genesis==
No Answers in Genesis is an organization started by John Stear, an Australian atheist. The organization aims to counter the Answers in Genesis organization and to defend evolution. The "True.Origins" Archive has created a critique of NAiG, consisting mostly of ad hominem attacks.A Critique Of John Stear’s “No Answers In Genesis” Website True.Origin In reply, NAiG has created the "True.Hogwash" essay.The True.Hogwash Archive by F.C. Kuechmann, No Answers in Genesis!
==See also==
*Creation Ministries International
*Answers Research Journal
*Essay:AiG - Exploiting Credulous Fools Since 1995
*Answers in Genesis Dawkins interview controversy
*Conservapedia:Arguments creationists shouldn't use
*Genesis Park
*Answers for Darwin
*Answers in Genesis-Creation Ministries International's Statement of Faith
*Affirmations and Denials Essential to a Consistent Christian (Biblical) Worldview
*Fossil sorting by the global flood
*The Creation Museum
*The Ark Encounter
==External links==
*website
*Youtube channel , the channel is full of crankery just like their website
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