Creation Display
Creation-science ministry Answers in Genesis (AIG) opened on Memorial Day the first large-scale museum dedicated to teaching young-earth creationism. Weeklong celebrations attracted more than 15,000 visitors, including a group of 40 protesters.
The 60,000-square-foot Creation Museum, located outside Cincinnati in Kentucky, displays dinosaur bones, a planetarium, and fossils. A walk-through-the-Bible exhibit features recreations of the Garden of Eden, the Tower of Babel, and Noah's Ark. A spate of publicity prompted AIG to expand the size of the $27 million museum.
AIG president and CEO Ken Ham said he has wanted such a museum for more than two decades.
"Twenty-five years ago, we didn't have all the arguments fine-tuned," Ham told CT. "This is part of the maturing of the biblical creationist movement."
The modern creationist movement began with John C. Whitcomb's The Genesis Flood, published in 1961.
"Christians have problems answering the questions of skeptics because churches and Christian colleges don't teach apologetics," Ham said. "The museum is a rallying point to call the church and culture back to the Word of God by confirming the Bible's accuracy."
Creation science largely arose in response to philosophically unsophisticated efforts to impose evolution education following Sputnik's launch in 1957, said Notre Dame University history professor Mark Noll.
"It's commendable that Christian parents want to resist the atheistic indoctrination of their children," Noll said. "Yet as eminent Christian scientists like Francis Collins have demonstrated, it's possible to honor God scientifically without recourse to creation science."
AIG officials anticipate that more than 250,000 visitors each year will pay the $19 admission fee (children ...
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Phil Brady
I believe the article served its main purpose- to introduce the reader to the new Creation Museum. I'm sure with the small context of the article and its limited space it could be understood why all involved people, dates, and other information could not be included. It appears some more important details should have been added, however. In this persons meager attempt answer to Neil Gussman I might point out some important historical information. Most all early "revolutionary" scientific discoveries were by people in the "Church" of believers. Most hospitals and universities were also started and operated (early on) by various Christian based groups. Most of us do not "turn down modern science"- only ungodly science based on the THEORY of evolution. Many brilliant and truly wise people realized and believe things that have happened- or that exist on this earth can not be happenstance! Evolution is harder to believe to we who truly OPEN OUR MINDS and HEARTS!
Creationists in Science
The article makes it sound like Creationists are all non-scientists. In fact, modern biology is founded upon genetics, not evolution, and genetics when it was developed was specifically anti-evolutionary. Likewise, there are many Creationists that are working very productively in science. John Sanford is largely responsible for the emergence of transgenic crops. John Baumgardner's computer simulations of the Earth's mantel processes which he uses to study Noah's flood have also been used by NASA and other big science agencies. Todd Wood was part of the team that sequenced the rice genome. Art Chadwick has been pioneering the use of 3D GPS in paleontology. Leonard Brand and others were on the front cover of the journal Geology for their work on rapid burial. As Allen mentioned below, Damadian invented the MRI, and in fact just recently unvelied the new upright MRI. These are just some of the activities by Young-Earth Creationists in recent times. And now I'm out of characters:)
Rhutchin
The Bible teaches the diversity of species within unique kinds of animals with mutation, recombination, and a host of other biological activities contributing to this diversity. Any scientist or student of biology can conduct simple empirical experiments that confirm agreement between the teaching of biology and the teaching of the Bible. What Darwin hypothesized, and that which is expounded by evolutionists, is common descent or the idea that all life has descended from one source. So far, proof of Darwin's speculation has eluded the evolutionist community and the idea of "common descent" is rightly called hypothesis. As scientists learn more and more about DNA and the complexity of even the simplest creatures, the theoretical legitimacy for Darwin's speculations of a common descent is fading.