Creation Museum Tells it Like It Was

Children playing alonside dinosaurs. A dirty graffiti scarred alley. A preacher denyng the Scriptures while a bored teen fusses in a pew. Six days of creation exploding on a wide screen in four minutes. And more. So much more.

It was the first visit my wife and I made to the controversial Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, just outside Cincinatti. The museum experience was definitely worth the two-hour drive from our Columbus, Ohio home, even with gas prices hovering at $3.50 per gallon.

On our limited budget, the day cost the two of us about $95.00 including gas, seniors admissions and food. But our $95.00 purchased the opportunity to see up close what the Bible says happened from creation through to the present.

The museum interprets history in the scope of a literal understanding of the book of Genesis. Creation happened in six days. Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Chaos and confusion followed. The human race, rejecting God and His authority over them, had nowhere else to turn but to themselves and their own imaginations and inventions. The result was not good.

Evolution and creation are shown in side-by-side comparisons, something never seen in a museum that depicts the evolutionary viewpoint. Billions of years of evolution are contrasted with 6000 years of Biblical history. The tediously slow process of evolution is contrasted with the six-day creation by God of everything in the universe and of the universe itself.

The museum makes no apologies for its Biblical view of natural history, nor should it. The museum's purpose is to help the average person understand what God did in bringing the universe into existence and his plan to deal with the disobedience of its principle residents. This it does extremely well.
Much criticism has been leveled against the museum, principally from two sources. The elitist scientific community stuck with the views of Charles Darwin because any other view would lead to the necessity of God have been outspoken and continuous in their criticisms, claiming that creation is "no science" and that children exposed to creation as depicted in the museum will have a real struggle with true science classes. Some have even claimed the museum's existence will take the human race back to the dark ages.

The other critical group is found in liberal churches and Roman Catholic churches, both of which have embraced evolution even though it does not fit the Biblical model of creation.

It's a free country, of course, and those who oppose the museum have a right to state their opinions. But so do those who are behind the Creation Museum. So do those of us who accept the Genesis account as true. Some critics claim the museum should not exist; but it does, and it loudly proclaims the Bible as the Word of God, telling history like it was. To which I say, "Amen!"

Of course, I recommend the museum to every Christian family who can get to Petersburg, KY. Take your children so they can see history from a Biblical viewpoint. I also recommend the museum to those who take a different viewpoint on natural history. Come with an open mind to see how others interpret the same facts from a different worldview.