Posted on 11/09/2007 5:18:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Creation Museum has met and exceeded its inaugural year attendance goal, less than six months after it opened its doors.
Officials at Answers in Genesis, the apologetics ministry that opened the museum in May, anticipated 250,000 visitors the first year. However, the northern Kentucky-based museum met that goal last week. Melany Ethridge, a spokesperson for the museum, says the big crowds indicate that many are interested in the biblical explanation of creation.
"The museum is drawing not only Christians who already believe in the biblical view of Creation, but it's drawing those who are just more curious to learn more. It's drawing those who have a theoretical belief in God and his involvement in Creation, but haven't ever studied it literally before, and so they're getting to go and learn more about that," she explains.
Ethridge points out that the 60,000-square-foot museum is still attracting large numbers of foreign media representatives as the creation-versus-evolution debate continues.
In before the insults.
PT Barnum would be proud.
Darn, too late.
I look forward to going sometime, although it will bring back painful memories of first examining claims of Creation “Scientists” and realizing that they were lying—or at least self-delusional. Up to that point, I had trusted their claims as having merit...wanting to believe that Christians could be trusted to avoid “bearing false witness.” :-(
They should call it an anti-museum. It certainly is the antithesis of scientific methods and learning.
The Darwin exhbit at the Field Museum in Chicago should top that by the time it closes at the end of the year.
You were right...
by the skin of your teeth!
I hope you do go, and I’d love to hear your impressions posted here if you do.
Here’s a couple of well-deserved insults for the museum’s fans:
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people.” (H.L.Mencken, of course)
“The museum that’s been honored by the same segment of society that voted ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ the Best Film of 1977.” (BuckeyeForever)
Bearing false witness - would that be the part about life evolving by random chance, against all chemical laws known to man; or would it be the part about evolution actually being science, instead of a philosophical viewpoint used to explain observations post priori?
Nope.
Good job. Of course, some ignorant bigots choose to be insulting in spite of the fact that they have never even been in the museum.
The MAJORITY don’t believe in evolution. As usual it’s a pompous minority that try to ram this nonsense down others throat. No evidence to prove it so they try to SILENCE the opposition through insults and vilification.
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