05.31.07
Update on Creation Museum Opening and Beyond
Well, the opening of the Creation Museum has come and gone. Several news articles have been written on the event, so I won’t rehash that too much. Basically, it has been reported that over 4,000 people attended the opening. Judging from the car license plates, it is estimated that people came from about 20 different states to get there. I have no idea how many people normally visit museums on any given day, but from the pictures provided on Ken Ham’s blog, it looked like a good turn out. The pictures can be viewed here. The reactions from those who attended appear to be varied since both creationists and non-creationists attended.
For those who aren’t familiar with Ken Ham, he used to be affiliated with the Institute for Creation Research (ICR). They run another creation museum in the San Diego area, which has been there for over 20 years now, I believe. I’ve been to that one twice since it’s within driving distance to me here. The materials from that institute is where I first learned of the problems with the “model” of evolution. As a child, I always had “questions” of how “they” “knew” certain things like what the dinosaurs looked like if all they found were bones, or if we came from apes, then why are there still apes, or how can they tell that something is “billions” of year old, or if they only find one bone here and another bone there, how do they know which belongs to which and how to put them back in their original positions if the species is no longer in existence to use as a model, etc. So when I first was exposed to material from ICR explaining that those ideas were only “ideas,” then all of a sudden things started to fall into place for me. At first my reaction was, “Oh! So ‘They’ don’t really know? That makes a lot of sense!” Then my next reaction was anger because then I realized that I had been lied to all these years or made to believe something that was not concrete fact. Instead of teaching me that they “suspected” evolution took place like such and such, they taught it to me as if it were a “fact.” Not only did I learn that evolution is only a “model” of how the beginning of our world began, creation is also only a “model” of how our world began. ICR and AIG do an excellent job of clarifying that both evolutionists and creationists have the same artifacts by which to study, and it’s the interpretations of those artifacts where the descripencies arise. Naturally, the field is very complex and involving, so I can’t possibly discuss it all here. However, I have found that there are now free online videos which deal with the creation vs. evolution models. Such videos can be viewed from here and here.
One other thing I thought I’d mention is that ICR and the new Creation Museum in Kentucky aren’t the only creation museums. There are others such as Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas and Big Valley Creation Science Museum in Alberta, Canada as well as others that can be found at this link.
It appears that Ken Ham continues to do interviews and has reported on his blog that for the most part, the media has been doing a pretty good job of reporting their statements accurately. That’s nice to hear.
Marlakins
