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[[Image:CMpix1.JPG|thumb|300px|The front of the Creation Museum while under construction in 2005.]]

[[Image:CMpix1.JPG|thumb|300px|The front of the Creation Museum while under construction in 2005.]]

The Creation Museum is 60,000 square foot museum that cost 27 million dollars to construct. It is located just outside of Cincinnati, a location chosen due to having almost two thirds of the United States population within a 650 mile distance.<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070520/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticsreligion_070520222942</ref> Designed to promote [[Young Earth Creationism]] with state of the art displays and presentations, it opened its doors to the public on May 28, 2007, exceeding expecations by receiving 4,000 visitors on the first day.

The '''Creation Museum''' is "60,000 square foot museum"<ref name="creationmuseum" /> that cost 27 million dollars to construct. It is located just outside of Cincinnati, a location chosen due to having almost two thirds of the United States population within a 650 mile distance.<ref>[http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070520/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticsreligion_070520222942 Dinosaurs frolic with Adam and Eve at creationism museum]</ref> Designed to promote [[Young Earth Creationism]] with state of the art displays and presentations, it opened its doors to the public on May 28, 2007, exceeding expectations by receiving 4,000 visitors on the first day.

The museum presents a literal interpretation of [[Genesis]] in the origin of universe and life. The exhibits illustrate that the planet is just a few thousand years old and that man and dinosaurs once coexisted. The enterprise is supported by [[Ken Ham]], creator of the group [http://www.answersingenesis.org/ Answers in Genesis].

"The Creation Museum presents a 'walk through history'"<ref name="creationmuseum">[http://creationmuseum.org Creation Museum]</ref> with a basis on a straightforward understanding of [[Genesis]] chapter 1. The exhibits are designed, for "[a] fully engaging, sensory experience,"<ref name="creationmuseum" /> and illustrate Earth's history and origin from a biblical perspective. The enterprise is supported by [[Ken Ham]], founder of [[Answers in Genesis]].

 

There has been some controversy since the enterprise was announced with physicist Lawrence Krauss<ref>[http://www.phys.cwru.edu/faculty/index.php?krauss Lawrence Krauss, Faculty Page]</ref>, Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University, stating that the museum is both a "fraud" and "hypocritical" because it:

"... repeatedly misrepresents the process and results of science and distorts the scientific record. Yet in every case it takes advantage of the technical wizardry of science to get its point across, with a series of dazzling animatronic displays and explanations" <ref> Kraus, L, 2007 quoted in "Museum of Misinformation", New Scientist, May 26th 2007, p24 </ref>

 

==Another creation museum to open in Canada==

==Another creation museum to open in Canada==

Big Valley is a small village located about 270 miles north of Alberta. The region is an historically important dinosaur fossil collecting area, where the "great Canadian dinosaur rush" occurred in the early 1900s<ref>[http://www.travelforkids.com/Funtodo/Alberta/dinoasaurvalley.htm Dinosaur Valley], Travel for Kids website]</ref>, popular for school field trips and tourists interested in fossils; the area also includes the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology and Dinosaur Provincial Park.

Big Valley is a small village located about 270 miles north of Alberta. The region is an historically important dinosaur fossil collecting area, where the "great Canadian dinosaur rush" occurred in the early 1900s<ref>[http://www.travelforkids.com/Funtodo/Alberta/dinoasaurvalley.htm Dinosaur Valley], Travel for Kids website]</ref>, popular for school field trips and tourists interested in fossils; the area also includes the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology and Dinosaur Provincial Park.

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