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A Museum of Creationism

by innes | May 24, 2007 at 01:00 pm

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PETERSBURG, Ky. — The entrance gates here are topped with metallic
Stegosauruses. The grounds include a giant tyrannosaur standing amid
the trees, and a stone-lined lobby sports varied sauropods. It could be
like any other natural history museum, luring families with the promise
of immense fossils and dinosaur adventures.
ut step a little farther into the entrance hall, and you come upon a
pastoral scene undreamt of by any natural history museum. Two
prehistoric children play near a burbling waterfall, thoroughly at home
in the natural world. Dinosaurs cavort nearby, their animatronic
mechanisms turning them into alluring companions, their gaping mouths
seeming not threatening, but almost welcoming, as an Apatosaurus
munches on leaves a few yards away.

What is this, then? A
reproduction of a childhood fantasy in which dinosaurs are friends of
inquisitive youngsters? The kind of fantasy that doesn’t care that
human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually
thought to have been separated by millions of years? No, this really is
meant to be more like one of those literal dioramas of the traditional
natural history museum, an imagining of a real habitat, with plant life
and landscape reproduced in meticulous detail.

For here at the $27 million Creation Museum, which opens on May 28 (just a short drive from the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky
International Airport), this pastoral scene is a glimpse of the world
just after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, in which dinosaurs
are still apparently as herbivorous as humans, and all are enjoying a
little calm in the days after the fall.

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ScienceDave

at 12:27 on May 24th, 2007

27 million...I'm speechless.

Kaitlin

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at 14:08 on May 24th, 2007

Thanks, innes. I love this place...I want to visit. I hear there are dinosaurs with saddles. Naturally!

ricknight

at 14:10 on May 24th, 2007

Well then it just "must' be true... I mean if there's a theme park and all.

GreatPlace (not verified)

at 11:42 on February 17th, 2009

I've been there a few times. Thinking about becoming a member. If you would venture in past the lobby you would find some good sience and both points of view. What the Creation Museum does well is get an opened minded person to think. I am a Christian who was at one time long before this museum was ready to lay down my faith simply because the sience as I knew it was very much against what I read in scripture. So I began to look and saw alot of my "science" belief was based on years of dogma, commenly accepted as truth without any real thought. The idea that the earth is millions of years old? According to Libby (inventor of Carbon Testing) Such testing is no longer accurate after 5000 years.

According to what is now known as "Sun Diameter Depletion Ratio" The earth can not be anymore then 25,000,000 years old. Much Much more. Open your mind and look at the evidence. Intelligent Design and for that matter Creationism is scientifically sound