Posted on 07/02/2007 1:29:36 PM PDT by balch3
The controversial $27 million Creation Museum located just outside Cincinnati has made a fairly strong start, boasting 40,000 visitors since its opening on Memorial Day.
Patrons enter the Special Effects Theater for a film presentation at the $27 million Creation Museum, which depicts a literal six-day account of creation. In its first month, 40,000 people made their way to the museum.
Counting the 9,000 visitors that pre-visited the museum, which depicts a literal six-day interpretation of creation from the Bible, the founding ministry Answers in Genesis (AiG) is well on its yearly goal of 250,000 guests, already meeting one-fifth of the total target.
Organizers are excited about the faster than expected pace, and hope the turnout continues on its current trend.
“We’re very thankful that so many people are coming out,” explained Ken Ham, co-founder of AiG, in a statement. “The feedback we’ve been getting is very positive. I’m grateful to observe that people are seeing that solid science backs the Bible.”
The museum, located in Petersburg, Ky., sparked much discussion in the past months when word got out that a Genesis-themed exhibit was going to be built. Evolution is derided at the 60,000-square-foot facility, packed with high-tech exhibits designed by an acclaimed theme-park artist, animatronic dinosaurs and a huge wooden ark. In this literal biblical version of history, dinosaurs appeared on the same day God created other land animals.
The museum also contains fossils, hung in large glass cases in a room visitors spill into after taking a tour of Old Testament history.
Both non-Christians and Christians who are against a literal interpretation of the Bible on life origins planned protests and spoke out against the anti-evolution display, worried that their children would be affected. The controversy garnered the new exhibit a large amount of media coverage. Ham even thanked the protesters after its opening for helping advertise the building as well as forcing it into its current location.
“[W]e were going to build a 30,000-square-foot building [somewhere else],” explained Ham in the Cincinnati Enquirer. “[But so many protests went on], the Lord directed us to this piece of property, right on a major freeway at a major interchange. And we decided to build a far bigger building (nearly 60,000 square feet), and a far bigger vision and a far bigger impact around the world – and I just want to thank, sincerely, the local secular humanist group.”
People who have visited the museum have expressed how impressed with how well done it was. Others were happy that there was finally a science exhibit that matched their worldview of creation.
“I’ve been a Christian for many years,” said motivational speaker Zig Ziglar in a statement, “but this museum has strengthened my faith.”
AiG workers have also reported a large increase of internet traffic going into their ministry’s website as a result of the multi-million dollar construction. On its best day, the website drew over 95,000 visitors (about 300,000 “page views”), according to members.
The museum has been booked solid every Saturday this summer for tours and has reached its capacity on a number of days.
Ministry heads expect the attendance to remain fairly high since the school year is approaching, which will bring in many more from homeschool and Christian field trips to the site.
I heard they had a really good first seven days...
(bad joke - just kidding) :-P
dinosaurs appeared on the same day God created other land animalsPathetic. Bogus. Sad.
Pathetic. Bogus. Sad.
>>Both non-Christians and Christians who are against a literal interpretation of the Bible on life origins planned protests and spoke out against the anti-evolution display, worried that their children would be affected.<<
Good grief, what are they so afraid of? It’s not like a public school where the pro-evolutionists have a captive audience from 8-2:30 180 days a year. If you don’t like it - don’t go! I disagree with the pro-evolutionary stance of the Boston Museum of Science, but I don’t protest it’s existance - I simply don’t go.
I think they are pushing a lot of false info and "teaching", if you can even call it that, a lot of people things that just aren't true.
Ok. Enjoy your trip to the museum. Hope you learn a lot.
Ah yes, but see, you are confident enough of your own beliefs to not be threatened by the mere existence of an opposing world view. Herein lies one of the fundamental differences between Conservatism and Liberalism and Christianity and atheism.
the Darwinists know their theory can’t stand up to close examination. They have to use discrimination and PC tactics to obscure the truth.
How much are ticket prices for this museum anyway ?
I didn’t say anything about going. Go. Enjoy. I’m not trying to limit your right to go to the museum.
This is FREEREPUBLIC and I have an opinion, and a long track record of getting along well here and just because you disagree with my opinion on this point doesn’t mean I’m trying to stop you from going to the museum.
Go. Have fun. Really. I hope you like it.
In my opinion, though, it is pretty pathetic. And I get to say that here. I really do. Sorry about that.
Disney land on the Ohio.
While viewing the dinosaur exhibits at the Royall Tyrell Museum, a real museum with real exhibits, a man beside me remarked “It must have been really hard to kill them with only spears”. I couldn’t believe there was such a person.
I went to a similar museum in Eureka Springs last week. It was about as I expected. What little science that was presented was riddled with half truths and inaccuracies.
I suspect an atheist’s-view-of-Biblical-creation museum would be on par with a creationist’s-view-of-evolution museum...
Did I, anywhere in my post even remotely suggest it be shut down and that people shouldn’t go?
Eureka Springs. What state?
I realized this weekend that this museum is about 15 minutes from my house. It's right on the way to buy illegal (in Kentucky) Indiana fireworks and the riverboat casinos. Do you suppose that was deliberate? LOL
Of course not. But it doesn't make it any less pathetic that people still believe in a 6,000 year old universe.
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