This excerpt details the founding and early development of the Creation Research Society (CRS), highlighting its origins within the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA). Initially sharing an anti-evolutionary stance with the ASA, the CRS ultimately splintered due to increasing dissatisfaction with the ASA's embrace of theistic evolution. A key group of creationists, the "Team of Ten," played a crucial role in drafting the CRS's statement of belief, designed to explicitly exclude theistic evolutionists. The excerpt further contrasts the CRS's young-earth creationism and catastrophic flood geology with a scientific article on tree design, ultimately using this to illustrate the CRS's belief in intelligent design and a young earth.