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The following are various reports on the Creation Museum, usually based on actual visits:
 
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The museum

The Creation Museum is a project associated with Answers in Genesis[1] that is, against scientific consensus,[2] devoted to the young earth creationist idea that "The Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation!"[1] The 27 million dollar museum founded by Ken Ham is located in Kentucky just a few miles from Cincinnati.[3]

The museum will hold to the idea that "the bible is the history book of the universe".

This is somehow supposed to be in line with their idea that "facts don't speak for themselves" and the Bible contains the "correct" way to interpret evidence available in the physical world.

Krauss debated with the AiG President Ken Ham in May 2007 on FOX News Channel’s popular TV program The O’Reilly Factor [4] On the BBC Radio programme "Today (May 31st 2007) Ken Ham was interviewed about the Museum. He provided an example of the "scientific evidence" that dinosaurs and humans had at one time lived together - it was a drawing on a cave wall which showed humans hunting what appeared to be dinosaurs.

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Creation museum "science"

Lawrence Krauss, director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) has stated publicly that the museum is both a "fraud" and "hypocritical" because:

"It repeatedly misrepresents the process and results of science and distorts the scientific record. Yet in every case it takes advantage of the technical wizardry of science to get its point across, with a series of dazzling animatronic displays and explanations" [5]

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are all prevalent in the creation museum. It contains numerous displays of dinosaurs coexisting peacefully with humans[6] despite the fact that the consensus of the scientific community is that dinosaurs lived millions of years before the first humans.[7] The creation museum supports the view that all dinosaurs in the garden of eden were previously herbivores[8], when asked why the T - rex had six inch long serrated teeth the guide will explain that those were for opening coconuts.[9]

The evidence the creation museum presents for dinosaurs' and humans' co-existence is a verse in the book of Job mentioning Behemoth[10], whose description creationists claim fits that of a paleosaur. This has demonstrated false, but they still insist on spreading the falsehood.[11] It does not bother them that the same book that talks about behemoth also talks about dragons[12] and how behemoth and leviathan will fight a mighty battle at the end of the world.[13]

Creation Museum Conspecifics

The Creation Museum is just the latest microevolutionary development in the creation museum kind. While no one has ever observed one creation museum kind giving birth to another creation museum kind there is plenty of variation within the kind (micro only of course). The closest extant relative of Ken Ham's creation is the Museum of Creation and Earth History out of California and sold by the Institute for Creation Research.

The 7 Wonders Creation Museum occupies a completely different ecological niche. Located as a missionary somewhere near Mt. St. Helens this spacious double-wide trailer offers guided tours of the monument to Creation by a loving God that all volcanoes represent, but particularly this one. For a mere $10 you can send your kids to a summer camp where they can learn all about how Noah's Ark dealt with lava.

Speaking of double-wide trailers, Patriot University alumnus and federal prisoner Kent Hovind has been offering children of all ages an adventure of a lifetime at Dinosaur Adventure Land. This Florida landmark has recently been through some tough times, it seems that Caesar's request for building permits to be rendered unto him was ignored. But it is still up and running, and for your tax deductible gift of $7 all the wonders of Dr. Dino can be yours.

While Ken Ham is getting all the big press another major creation museum is having its grand opening in July. Big Valley Creation Science Museum offers all the wonders one comes to expect from a converted garage.

As can be seen there is a wide variety of trailers, garages, backyards and abandoned warehouses vying for the money of Creation Science devotees. The question is whether Ken Ham's fully animated pumpkin-eating T-rex will be enough to overcome his competitors?

See Also

Blogsnark

The following are various reports on the Creation Museum, usually based on actual visits:

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 CreationMuseaum:About
  2. About.com:Geology
  3. MSNBC:High-tech museum brings creationism to life
  4. Source:Answers in Genesis this has to be a first; accurate information!!!
  5. Kraus, L, 2007 quoted in "Museum of Misinformation", New Scientist, May 26th 2007, p24
  6. NYtimes:Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs
  7. University of California
  8. Fish feet:T-Rex are coconuts
  9. Science blogs:Pharyngula
  10. http://www.telecomtally.com/blog/2007/05/this_is_not_about_dinosaurs.html Abnormal Interests
  11. The truth about behemoth
  12. Accuracy in genesis
  13. The Franz Neumann Project
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