Yesterday, I spent the day at the Creation Museum near Cincinnati, which opens to the public tomorrow, May 28. It is a most remarkable museum for two basic reasons: first, it promotes the view that the biblical account of the origin of the universe, as written in Genesis, is literally true, and second, that it presents this view thoughtfully, articulately, and with a high level of 21st century, quality entertainment.
I believe there is nothing wrong with examining both evolution and creationism, weighing the arguments pro and con, and making your own conclusions.
This museum was paid for with $27 million in private donations, and as Ken Ham, the founder and a major driving force in creating the Creation Museum told me yesterday, this is a free country. They built the museum and people can go if they want, or not go if they don't want. That's free enterprise, that's freedom of speech, that's freedom of religion, that's America.
People who disagree with Creation have plenty of museums they can go to that promote evolutionary views.
One thing Ham said that I think is true is that our educational system for the last half century or so has taught that evolution is a fact and not a theory. People who believe in evolution like to believe that Creationists are ignorant, naive and dangerous. I give Ken Ham and his colleagues, especially Mark Looy, Patrick Marsh, and Mike Zovath, tremendous credit for presenting their Creation beliefs with intelligence, graciousness, and thoroughness.
This is a topic that I have not made up my mind on yet. I am a product of the educational system that taught evolution as fact. I am also a Bible-believing Christian. I can't reconcile the two divergent views and need to do more personal research on this hot-button topic.
I find it hard to believe that dinosaurs and humans co-existed within the last few thousand years. Maybe my faith isn't strong enough or my scientific training is too ingrained. I have some issues to resolve, but I'm not ruling anything out.
In the meantime, more power to the Creation Museum for representing a much-maligned point of view and doing it with class and dignity and responsibility.
Here's a photo of Adam and Eve from the museum, and below that a link to my article that ran in The Blade today about the museum, published at the top right corner of A-1, the front news page.

Here is the link to my article in The Blade.
Sylvania, Ohio, May 27, 2007