Science or the Bible?

Creation Museum Update

The 60,000 square foot state of the art Creation Museum near Cincinnati, Ohio has now been opened for almost six months. The new museum has already had 280,000 visitors according to its founder, Australian-born former high school science teacher and formerly employed by the Institute for Creation Research (ICR), Ken Ham. I had the opportunity to attend part of a conference on creationism where he spoke yesterday at a church in Sugarcreek, Ohio. He also told us last night that the museum averages over 3,000 visitors each Saturday. I heard recently on a radio show that the Creation Museum projected to have at least 400,000 visitors during its first year, far exceeding expectations. People are hungry for the truth.

What is unique about the Creation Museum is that both the secular humanist and the biblical explanations about the origin of life are presented side by side. This contrasts significantly with the typical secular humanist evolutionist presentation in museums or academia where only one side is presented as “scientifically” accurate, which is the flawed evolutionary explanation.

Ken Ham vehemently disagrees with the view that creationism is non-scientific and strictly a religious explanation for origins of life. He points out that are two types of science, observable or operation and origins. The observable or operation science are used equally by both the evolutionist-scientist as well as the creationist-scientist. By the way, the Museum employs several PhD scientists in various fields. Origin science is based on one’s interpretation of the facts found in observation science. See comprehensive definitions of the two types of science from the July-September 2007 issue (page 24) of Answers Magazine provided below:

"Operation science uses the so-called "scientific method" to attempt to discover truth, performing observable, repeatable experiments in ta controlled environment to find patters of recurring behavior in the present physical universe. For example, we can study gravity, study the spread of disease, or observe speciation in the lab or in the world . . .

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"Origin science attempts to discover truth by examining reliable eyewitness testimony (if available), and circumstantial evidence, such as pottery, fossils, and canyons. Because the past cannot be observed directly, assumptions greatly affect how these scientists interpret what they see."

It depends on what starting point one employs as far as how origin science is used. For the evolutionist their basic starting assumption and what they depend on is human reason, which basically says that over the course of millions of years, life and matter evolved from nothing. For the creationist their starting point or foundation is the Bible and acknowledges that there was a Designer and accepts a Biblical explanation for the origin of life and matter.

Ken Ham stated that the Bible explains the origin of life from a historical perspective. Neither the evolutionist-scientist nor the creationist-scientist was present to observe the origin of life or matter. Therefore, neither the evolutionist nor the biblical explanation for origins can be proven, just explained. In other words, it takes faith to believe in either “religious” explanation. After all, evolution is one of the key principles or beliefs of the Secular-Humanist Atheistic “religion,” as much as creationism is a core principle or belief of the Judeo-Christian “religions.”

Answers in Genesis (AIG) also produces a great amount and variety of resources for all age groups, which were available for purchase at the conference. If you ever have the opportunity to attend a presentation by Ken Ham, it is well worth the time invested. Also, I resolve to visit the Creation Museum sometime during the next twelve months.