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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. | + | 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 | + | "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]]. |
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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. | 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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| + | There has been some controversy since the Museum was announced. Lawrence Krauss (physicist)<ref>[http://www.phys.cwru.edu/faculty/index.php?krauss Lawrence Krauss, Faculty Page]</ref> stated 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> | ||
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| + | Ken Ham debated the issues raised by the Museum on The FOX News Channel’s TV program The O’Reilly Factor on 28th May.<ref>[http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2007/05/28/museum-news-oreilly Ken Ham on The O’Reilly Factor]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 17:39, May 29, 2007
The Creation Museum is "60,000 square foot museum"[1] 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.[2] 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 Creation Museum presents a 'walk through history'"[1] with a basis on a straightforward understanding of Genesis chapter 1. The exhibits are designed, for "[a] fully engaging, sensory experience,"[1] and illustrate Earth's history and origin from a biblical perspective. The enterprise is supported by Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis.
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[3] in Big Valley, Canada.[4] 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[5], popular for school field trips and tourists interested in fossils; the area also includes the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology and Dinosaur Provincial Park.
Controversy
There has been some controversy since the Museum was announced. Lawrence Krauss (physicist)[6] stated 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"[7]
Ken Ham debated the issues raised by the Museum on The FOX News Channel’s TV program The O’Reilly Factor on 28th May.[8]
references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Creation Museum
- ↑ Dinosaurs frolic with Adam and Eve at creationism museum
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ Lawrence Krauss, Faculty Page
- ↑ Kraus, L, 2007 quoted in "Museum of Misinformation", New Scientist, May 26th 2007, p24
- ↑ Ken Ham on The O’Reilly Factor