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.

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.