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Creation Museum: Where People and Dinosaurs Meet
First of all, I love Kentucky. I really do. I was born there. I have family still there, but here's a museum that I'm just not too sure about and it happens to be near where my relatives live. Already there's controversy and I almost hesitate to bring it up, but here it goes, The Creation Museum opens tomorrow just south of Cincinnati. The Web site's heading says, "Prepare to Believe." This is an opposite look at natural history than the one depicted in my La Brea Tar Pits post.
The museum is not just a rinky-dink operation either. This is a mega-bucks attraction, as in $27 million, to highlight how the Bible is word for word true. For example, according to the word for word translation of the Bible all animals were created on the 5th and 6th day, dinosaurs included. That means that humans and dinosaurs really did live at the same time. The Creation Museum shows just what that looked like. Just think what this means for Walt Disney Productions.
To help visitors prepare to believe and connect dots between then and now, Old Testament favorites like Noah's Ark are depicted in life-like form. If you ever wondered how the animals got off the ark this might help you out. The museum also has all the bells and whistles of visitor interaction as part of the walk-through displays. The photo is of the main exhibit hall where a 40-foot tall aninimatronic sauropod dinosaur is grouped with several others.
In Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky scientists are busy with protests since the fear is that kids, like my 5-year old son who would be enamored with this place, might have their scientific lens destroyed. For the creators of the museum, one of them a former Universal Studios director, it seems to me, that is part of the point. One of the things I appreciate about this place is that the museum says upfront what it is. The main theme is "The Bible is True from Genesis to Revelation." This isn't a bait and switch operation. You may not believe what you see, but you won't be surprised by it either.
Filed under: History, Learning, Festivals and Events, North America, United States
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
who Feb 23rd 2008 2:24PM
You say you are a Christain and yet you deny the Gensis account of creation in the Bible? How is that possible? Do realixe that evoluiton reqires so called billions of years a lot of death (survival of the fittests) for it to work. No God on the other hand created everything and called it good! How could God created death and all creatures snaring and eating each other and call it good?
There was no death until the fall of man!! No No Christianity and Godless Evolution or not compatable and will never be!
Who Feb 23rd 2008 3:05PM
You say you are a Christian but deny the Geneses account of creation? How is that possible? You cannot compromise evolution and creation at all. Creation, God made everything and said it was good. There was no death until the fall of man. Sin caused all creation to groan and all things to die. Evolution = Death, that is their theme. Survival of the fittest one thing eating another, you see it in nature films, people killing each other wars, and we die anyway from age, disease, sickness, etc. This is not good; it is part of the curse from our sin. Now do you see the difference?
Daniel Vojir Feb 23rd 2008 5:04PM
Cali:
You can't spar with someone like Who. "Young earthers" have a rhetoric all their own which defies reason. Notice he did not comment on the ridiculous cost of the Creation Museum. He only stated that since you don't believe in Genesis literally, then you couldn't possibly be Christian. And what's with "Evolution =Death"?
And as to mankind and original sin, this concept is based on the writings of Saint Augustine who felt pretty guilty about his life and became a kind of theological neurotic: if he felt guilt, then EVERYONE must feel guilt. There's something sadistic and sinister about a God who would put a black mark on everyone's soul because their ancester disobeyed him.
These people hate humanity more than they love God. Ad remember the song from South Pacific: "You have to be taught to hate." "Who" seems dismal, sad and delusional.
medora ingersoll May 27th 2007 10:36PM
Jamie- Rhein WHO SAID MAN WAS CREATED WITH at the time of the DINASOURS? NOT THE BIBLE! MAN IS NOT AN ANIMAL! ANIMALS DO NOT HAVE "EXACT" DNA AS A HUMAN BEING!THERE IS NO OTHER ANIMAL EQUAL TO MANKIND regardless who says differently!
IF YOU CAN PROVE THIS TO ME ....THEN I WILL APPOLIGIZE, BUT I HAE RESEARCHED "CRICK AND WATSON" THE DISCOVERERS OF THE DNA hELIX AND KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.
I WILL BE STUNNED IF YOU FIND PROOF I AM WRONG!
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Jamie Rhein May 27th 2007 10:48PM
I didn't say one way or another. All I said is what the museum says. Read the article I linked to where there are interviews with the museum creators. They explain where their ideas come from. I did say it's a controversal museum.
DanV May 28th 2007 1:30AM
The pity of the "museum" is not the "Yabba Dabba Doo" science, but the fact that $27 million could have gone to better use. I did some research: $27 million could have fed over 600,000 people in Sierra Leone for quite some time. Creationists like Ham never seem to think about that...or care. It shows people just how much conservative "Christians" have to be entertained in order to believe. Ditto megachurches with rock bands, fog machines, McDonald's & fitness centers. They can't just bring God down to our level, He has to be sold and merchandised or else nobody will be saved!
Who Feb 23rd 2008 2:19PM
The truth be known evolution false science has probably wasted Billions of dollars over the years not counting the damage is has done to ruin peoples faith and furthermore the indirect damage it has caused, such as kids killing other kids in schools. Once you removed the standard of truth and tell kids they are just a product of slime, that really doesn't do much for the self esteem does it? Evolution is not real science, it is just a theory and not a very good one at that. Creation Science or ID is very good science. Neither one can be proven but ID has a lot more going for it than evolution when you look at them closely. A lie (evolution) told over and over and long enough can become believable
Cali May 28th 2007 10:36PM
I agree with Dan on this one. I am a Christian, but I think that there must be a way for science and the Bible to go hand in hand. However, a creation museum whose only evidence is in Genesis is not what I would call hand in hand. Why did they have to spend $27 million on this museum? It may be controversial, but is it so controversial that people are dying to see it? I think the money could have been spent more wisely, like to fund a Darfur project or something. Invest the money in something that is going on NOW, not something that we can only speculate to be true.