Creation Museum Opens With A Big Bang

Yesterday, Australian Ken Ham, of Answers in Genesis (AIG), opened the privately funded, $27 million, 60,000 sq. ft. Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky near Cincinnati. Approximately 500 people were waiting in line when the museum pened at 10:00 a.m. yesterday, Memorial Day. Thousands more attended throughout the day.

The ever-vigilant Political Correctness Police were on hand to protest the opening of this museum, which declared unashamedly a biblically-based explanation for creation and the origin of life. About 50 protesters showed up touting their protest as the “Rally for Reason.” No doubt the protesters were on hand to ridicule and sneer. Among the protest organizers and participants were atheists, educators, scientists and a group called Defend the Constitution, or DefCon as they call themselves. I’m not quite sure what part of the Constitution they are defending, though, maybe their right to protest or their right to be wrong?

To me, DefCon is misnamed; it should be called Deaf-Lib signifying that many, liberal or progressive elite are very closed minded when it comes to considering alternate explanation or truth. They are blinded by their hatred for God and Jesus Christ and any alternative view that threatens or dares to question their secular humanistic dogma. In other words, they simply cannot accept any explanation but their own. In fact, they are quite intolerant of all viewpoints save their own viewpoints including the much flawed evolution theory.

In a OneNewsNow.com article today Ken Ham said the protesters were “saying things like we shouldn't be allowed to present the science we're presenting. They're scared of us. [Do you] know why they're scared? Because for the first time we've built a major facility where we're using real observational science to confirm the Bible's history. They don't like that at all. They don't want people to hear this information."

In a National Public Radio interview yesterday Ken Ham told Steve Innskeep, "There is a conflict if you try to add evolution to the Bible and take Genesis as literal history.. For instance, the Bible teaches man was made from dust in [the book of] Genesis … whereas evolution would teach that man came from some ape-like ancestor. I know there are many Christians who say they believe in evolution [over] millions of years. I would say they're being inconsistent in their approach to scripture. A literal Genesis is actually the foundational history for the rest of the Bible for all doctrine.”

One TV station, Channel 10, quoted Clark Stevens of the Campaign to Defend the Constitution as saying that teachers nationwide have signed a petition accusing Answers in Genesis of "confusing our children and undermining our nation's commitment to scientific understanding."

Here the Petition which the DeafLibs are circulating:

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As DefCon supporters, we join together to express our opposition to the "Creation Museum," an institution built by Answers in Genesis (AiG) and designed to promote the falsehood that science supports the notion of a 6,000 year old Earth.

This institution is only the most recent example of the religious right's war on science education - whether in the form of anti-evolution stickers in textbooks or the promotion of intelligent design in the classroom.

In all of these cases the religious right has sought to create controversy where none exists, confusing our children and undermining our nation's commitment to scientific understanding.

As Americans, we support our fellow citizens' freedoms of religion and speech, and as a private institution, AiG is free to deny the over-whelming evidence resulting from hundreds of years of scientific work. We, however, oppose this nefarious campaign to institutionalize a lie.

We urge AiG to cease their war on science and we call on educators, media, and citizens to exercise critical thinking and their own right and responsibility of free speech, and oppose AiG's false claims wherever they are promoted.

Some of the liberal elite visited the museum. Hopefully they saw and maybe even learned that this very professional and well-designed museum clearly showed the integration of biblical creationism and the sciences in a world-class way. They may have even been astounded at what these stone-age, Neanderthal Christians actually were able to accomplish in developing the Creation Museum.