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| + | A much more modest creation museum, the ''Big Valley Creation Science Museum,'' is scheduled to open on June 5, 2007<ref>[http://www.bvcsm.com/ Big Valley Creation Science Museum], museum website]</ref> in Big Valley, Canada.<ref>[http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKN2547663920070529 Canada's first museum of creation opens in Alberta], Reuters, May 29, 2007</ref> It includes displays on "Fossils and the Flood," a set of English scrolls tracing the family of King Henry VI back to the Garden of Eden, and illustrations of humans and dinosaurs coexisting. | ||
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| + | 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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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.[1] 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 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 Answers in Genesis.
There has been some controversy since the enterprise was announced with physicist Lawrence Krauss[2], 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" [3]
Ken Ham debated the issues raised by the Museum on The FOX News Channel’s TV program The O’Reilly Factor on 28th May [4]
Another creation museum to open in Canada
A much more modest creation museum, the Big Valley Creation Science Museum, is scheduled to open on June 5, 2007[5] in Big Valley, Canada.[6] It includes displays on "Fossils and the Flood," a set of English scrolls tracing the family of King Henry VI back to the Garden of Eden, and illustrations of humans and dinosaurs coexisting.
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[7], popular for school field trips and tourists interested in fossils; the area also includes the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology and Dinosaur Provincial Park.
references
- ↑ http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070520/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticsreligion_070520222942
- ↑ Lawrence Krauss, Faculty Page
- ↑ Kraus, L, 2007 quoted in "Museum of Misinformation", New Scientist, May 26th 2007, p24
- ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2007/05/28/museum-news-oreilly
- ↑ Big Valley Creation Science Museum, museum website]
- ↑ Canada's first museum of creation opens in Alberta, Reuters, May 29, 2007
- ↑ Dinosaur Valley, Travel for Kids website]