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AiG employs a number of staff members with scientific qualifications who hold speaking conferences and other events upon request.
AiG was started in Australia in the late 1970s by John Mackay and Ken Ham and others who felt that the church was compromising the Bible in the face of ever-increasing attacks by secularists. The organisation was then known as Creation Science Supplies, later changed to Creation Science Foundation (CSF). A separate Australian organisation started by Dr. Carl Wieland around the same time published the magazine Ex Nihilo. Soon after, CSF took over production of Ex Nihilo, and later renamed it Creation.
In 1987 Ken Ham left CSF to work for the Institute for Creation Research in the United States, then in 1994 left ICR to found Answers In Genesis (USA). Later that year, CSF in Australia and other countries changed their names to Answers In Genesis.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, AiG in the United States started planning and constructing a large Creation museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, USA, which they say will explain the history of the world according to the Bible. The museum is being financed strictly by donations from AiG's supporters; so it will open only when they receive the needed $25 million, which will pay for the building, interior designs and exhibits.
AiG tries to present primarily scientific arguments for Creationism, avoiding many of the rhetoricRhetoric (from Greek ρητωρ, rhetor "orator") is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialectic and grammar). While it has meant many different things during its 2500-year history, it is generally dal methods used by many of their contemporaries. Critics charge that many of their arguments are arguments against evolution rather than for Creationism, as if disproving evolution gives credence to Creation. AiG says that neither view can be scientifically proved nor disproved, and that they seek to show that the evidence better fits with creation than evolution.
The emphasis AiG puts on historicalHistory is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in "geologic history of the Earth". When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. The term histor reasons for abandoning the theory of evolutionThis article is about biological evolution. For other possible meanings, see Evolution (disambiguation). Evolution generally refers to any process of change over time. However, in the context of the life sciences, evolution is a change in the genetic make is somewhat unique among Creationist groups. In particular, the group promotes the idea that that there is a connection between Darwin'sCharles Robert Darwin ( February 12, 1809 April 19, 1882) was an English naturalist whose revolutionary theory laid the foundation for both the modern theory of evolution and the principle of common descent by proposing natural selection as a mechanism. theory of evolution and racismRacism refers to beliefs, practices, and institutions that negatively discriminate against people based on their perceived or ascribed race. Sometimes the term is also used to describe the belief that race is the primary determinant of human capacities, o. This basic argument is that a hierarchy of nature implies that humans have a hierarchy as well, whereas in their reading of the Bible, all men are equal in the eyes of God (and are also all descended from one man, Adam, a view of human development, they argue, which makes racism clearly a foolish notion). In so doing they are actually, if tacitly, in agreement with modern evolutionists, who believe that the hierarchical taxonomic organization of life results from common descent, and do not assert that it is a hierarchy of merit.
AiG points to the history of scientific racism and eugenics to show that many early practitioners of evolutionary theory were themselves racists, and used evolutionary theory to add a veneer of scientific authority to their claims. They also connect belief in evolutionary theory with the eugenics and racial theories of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. In response to the violent history of Christianity, the group claims that anyone who used the Bible to justify atrocities (such as during the Crusades or the colonization of the New World) was clearly misinterpreting the Bible's intent (e.g., Jesus says to love your enemies and bless them that curse you [Matthew 5:44]).
Merged with this approach are the conclusions of modern anthropology about the meaninglessness of the category " race" which they see as supporting their interpretation of scripture. Using this line of argument, AiG argues that Creationism, along with other Biblical teachings, is the only true answer to the social problem of racism, and that Evolution has (and still does) promote racism.