Creationism: A Museum for Middle America

Believe it or not, but in late May, a Creation Museum will open its gates in Petersburg, Kentucky. The project was brought into being by Ken Ham, a former high-school biology and zoology teacher who felt he wouldn't be consistent if he taught evolution while believing in the literal truth of the Bible. So one he and his students visited a natural-history museum in which evolution was presented as a fact, he came up with the plan of opening a Creation Museum.

Creationists believe in the Garden of Eden, they think that the world is 6000 years old, that God created man and animals simultaneously and that the flood wiped out every living creature that wasn't inside Noah's ark.
The museum focuses on Genesis, the first book of the Bible and actually offers a lot to see. There is a special effects theater ( when the flood comes, seats start to shake and water squirts around), the story of the Bible is told through videos, voice-overs, models and mural paintings, there is a gargantuan replica of Noah's Ark and even a planetarium. The costs? $26 million...

Jason Lisle, who is in charge of the planetarium, has a very interesting point of view: "Science comes out of a Biblical worldview. We don't try to prove the Bible from outside evidence. We accept the Bible as presupposition."

Ham often asks evolutionists how they can gain knowledge from the past if they hadn't been there, and if people ask him the same question, he answers: "Man by himself couldn't have written such a consistent, non-contradictory book."

The museum expects 250 000 visitors in the first year, and if we consider that last year a poll found out that 58% of the interviewed support the idea of teaching creationism along with evolution in schools, this is likely to happen.