Visits to the Creation Museum

For your consideration, check out these two articles about visits to the Creation Museum, one from The Christian Century and the other from Sightings:

• "Dinosaurs in the Garden" by Jason Byassee
• "The Creation Museum" by Joseph Laycock

If you haven't heard about the Creation Museum, it's a $27 million museum in Kentucky built by a "creation science" group called Answers in Genesis. These are "young earth" creationists who believe that the universe was created in six 24-hour days about 6,000 years ago. Creationists who think it is possible that the "days" in Genesis 1 could represent longer periods of astronomic and geologic time and the newer waves of apologists defending "intelligent design" don't have anything on this group, who take the Bible about as literally as possible.

This approach to the Bible leads, of course, to some interesting theories. Dinosaurs lived with humans and ate only vegetables before the flood. The biblical flood is suggested as the cause of much of the geological and biological anomalies typically explained through evolutionary biology and geology.

I must admit that this sounds like a fascinating place to visit, though it seems that one stands to learn more about the people who believe in theories such as this than anything actually scientific. But that alone is probably worth the price of admission.