AOL was kind enough to post this feature story on the Creation Museum (check out the photos at that link) currently under construction in Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. (This is in the same general vicinity as Newport Aquarium, which is only about 5 years old and very nice - I can personally recommend it, along with the Kentucky Horse Park, Berea, Cumberland Falls, and Mammoth Cave. There you go - voila - your whole vacation planned! I've taken my nephews on several vacations and this was their all-time favorite - mine, too.) Australian Ken Hamm is the founder of Answers in Genesis and the museum is his brainchild.
Naturally, though, (pardon the pun!) AOL had to emphasize the lunacy of believing in Creation:
Write this down: Genesis is NOT contradicted by science. The one thing definitively contradicted by science is evolution.Like most natural history museums, this one has exhibits showing dinosaurs roaming the Earth. Except here, the giant reptiles share the forest with Adam and Eve. That, of course, is contradicted by science, but that's the point of the $25 million Creation Museum rising fast in rural Kentucky...
Scientists say fossils and sophisticated nuclear dating technology show that the Earth s more than 4 billion years old, the first dinosaurs appeared around 200 million years ago, and they died out well before the first human ancestors arose a few million years ago.
"Genesis is not science," said Mary Dawson, curator emeritus of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. "Genesis is a tale that was handed down for generations by people who really knew nothing about science, who knew nothing about natural history, and certainly knew nothing about what fossils were."
(courtesy of DonnaL)
