Editorial: Visit the Creation Museum
Posted by Dr. Dan on October 2, 2009
Of the many interesting places we visited in September, the most interesting was the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky near Cincinnati. My wife thinks shopping malls are equal to museums and she enjoyed this one. As proof, she bought more stuff in the gift shop than she bought at Prime Outlets the day before.
To my knowledge there is no other museum devoted to presenting Genesis as factual history. And why shouldn’t there be one? Detractors say that Genesis is a myth because its assertions cannot be proved by scientific evidence. The scientific history of our planet and the universe changes generationally based on the latest discoveries. The scientific theories of the past are in the category of myths today, and that tends to level the playing field versus the creation story.
The Creation Museum is a wonderful presentation of Genesis. The quality of the exhibits is on par with those in Chicago’s Museum of Natural History. There are plenty of interactive opportunities for both children and adults. The walk through Noah’s Ark is fascinating. After the museum, we took a stroll through the several acres of beautiful gardens filled with plants that don’t look like they belong in this climate, but there they are.
Today a minority percentage of Americans accept Genesis as fact, so the Creation Museum invites controversy. Probably the most controversial assertion is that dinosaurs and man coexisted. This goes against everything archeology has discovered in the past 100 years. But, on the fifth day God created all the fish and animals, and on the sixth day God created man, so there you are. All creatures great and small coexisted with man.
In my small mind an obvious question popped up in the dinosaur exhibit: Why, in rock strata where dinosaur fossils are found, do we not also find human fossils as well as fossils of dogs, cats, and horses? The question was not addressed in the exhibit, so the answer becomes one of faith. I grew up with the Flintstones, so the Creation Museum’s answer is good enough for me.
