There are two basic models which scientists may use when they study the origin of life. One is that all the basic life forms which may be observed in the world around us and in the fossil record were created supernaturally and instantaneously. The other is that over millions of years, atoms came together by accident to form complex organisms.

In September 1970, the Institute for Creation Research was merely a need waiting to be met and a vision seeking fulfillment.

The late Dr. A.I. Oparin, Russian biochemist, is primarily responsible for the modern theories on the origin of life. He believed that inorganic substances could come together and spontaneously generate living matter. Dr. Oparin's atheistic philosophy did not permit him to entertain the possibility of a Creator.

Biblical criticism founded in Germany in the early nineteenth century concentrated mainly on the five books of Moses, especially Genesis. One theory followed the other until nearly all held that these five books were merely the history of man's thoughts about God.