the scientific community considers creationism to be pseudoscience. as a result, science organizations, such as the national center for science education, criticize the promotion of creationism as a form of non-science. glenn branch, deputy director of the ncse explained "[the museum's] scientific claims are simply wrong and have been debunked long ago, and students who are misled by them are likely to be at a disadvantage as they study science at institutes of higher learning."