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.
Well, you can bet that there’s very little paleontology or geology on those tests.
Now that's just sad.
So let's say you're right, that it will hurt students in those areas. How does that relate to your original point that it'll hurt our students when they compete with "the Asians" in technology?
So you don't think someone with a creationist point of view will be at a disadvantage when pitted against someone with a point of view rooted in modern geology and paleontology?
I'll give you an example. If a kid brought up to believe in creationism wants to grow up and work on nuclear reactors, how is he going to mediate the fact that the half life of Plutonium 235 is 700 million years when he believes that the Earth is 6,000 years old.
I'd call that a potential problem.
The liberals get all kinds of public funding for liberal nonsense like PBS and a government mandate to spread known falsehoods on any number of more dangerous issues. I am an evolutionist and a conservative Catholic but I have no fear of the museum at all, its a free country. Stop whining like a bunch of liberals.
Try reading some Hugh Ross.
LOL! ‘sok, really!
Yeah, but the schools weren't teaching anything remotely resembling Ken Hamm's / AIG's young earth "creation science" back before the decline in educational standards either.
This stuff wasn't even invented until the 1900's and 10's by George McCready Price, a Seventh Day Adventist whose efforts were more directly invested in upholding the literal truth of "Prophetess" Ellen G. White's utterances than those found in the Bible. (The Bible never says that Noah's flood deposited most of the earth's fossils, or even that it was geologically significant, but White did say exactly that.)
Even then this flood geology scheme attracted little attention outside of Seventh Day Adventist circles. It didn't even begin to become popular among fundamentalists and evangelicals generally until Price's ideas were (mostly superficially) reworked and repackaged by Morris and Whitcomb in The Genesis Flood, published in 1961.
That is a valid point.
One of those Darwinists was quite saddened at how good the displays are. This one lady (can’t remember what kind of “official” she was...) said that now these kids will believe what they see at the museum, since the displays are of such quality.... Apparently the quality of the place really blew her mind... LOL...
haha. and i am thrilled they do not have to give equal time. you watch — some hate filled darwinist will inflict damage or do something stupid to the museum. they can’t tolerate another opinion.
there are many modern geologists and palentologists who are creationists. some of the most interesting talks i have heard blend both. those who believe in evolution simply ignore alot of the fossils or evidence that don’t fit their mind set. sounds kind of unscientific to me.
You're not supposed to write that. This is CREVO thread for goshsakes. Have some respect for the format.
“Yeah,” one kid said, “everybody knows the Earth’s only 6,000 years old.”
Hey, kid. If the universe is only 6000 years old, and the speed of light is a measurable constant, then why is it we can easily measure distances of millions of light years and more to other galaxies in the universe? How can we see light from so far away if we can only see 6000 light years into the past?
Oops. Sorry. What I MEANT to say was that you're a godless heathen pagan and you're gonna burn in hell forever.
;-)
I’d go, I need a good laugh :)
If it doesn't concern you that a large block conservative citizens are bringing their children up with pseudoscience then I have no response. I see it as the same kind of problem that we have with indoctrinating kids into the global warming cult.
Believe what you want, I don't care.
If he believes the Earth is 6,000 years old, I won’t waste my time. I will however make sure that I live at least a 1,000 miles away from whatever reactor he is in charge of.
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