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This is from Volume 10 Number 1 of the NCSE Newsletter (1990): (The article is somewhat out of date.) ===================================== The Institute for Creation Research, internationally known flagship academy for training in "scientific" creationism, was informed by a California committee of scientists on January 12, 1990, that it's masters degree programs in Geology, Biology, Astro/Geophysics, and Science Education are deficient in every major category of evaluation. The report was written at the behest of the State Department of Education, which is in the process of evaluating ICR's license to grant graduate degrees in California. The committee, including a member hand-picked by ICR, listed deficiencies in curriculum, faculty and instruction, facilities and equipment, and academic achievement. . . The visiting committee examined syllabi and final examinations, audited courses, and interviewed students and professors. ...... . . "When visiting team members spoke with this student about his plans following completion of the M.S., the student speculated that he might remain with ICR as their librarian for a while, and after that, he would see. When asked whether he might consider continuing on elsewhere for a Ph.D., he commented, 'Who would take me with *this* [emphasis in original] degree?'" . . "The pattern is clear. Although some of the faculty profess their intention to maintain research activity, no member of the resident faculty of the Institute for Creation Research has continued an active and published research program since arrival at the ICR. The Institute for Creation Research can therefore not be considered to be a scientific research institution." ================ This newsletter offered a copy of the whole report for $5, but I don't know if it is still available.

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