Creation "Museum" Part I: Quick Summary

I spent today at the Creation "Museum" in Kentucky (along side 250+ other critics, mostly from the Secular Students' Alliance), and I've got hundreds of photos worth of anti-science/pro-Creationism displays to mull over for future posts to this blog.

In the meantime, I thought I'd start things off with a quick summary on my thoughts of the "Museum", and hopefully a little insight into the messages that I would assume a lot of folks probably take away from the place.

First, the "Museum" (or the Creation ministry, as I might refer to it below) is run by Answers in Genesis, a non-profit (ahem...) Christian apologetics ministry that believes in a literal interpretation of the Bible (at least some of it, Genesis in particular).

Their stated goal is NOT to run a real museum based upon honest, empirical facts and good science. Instead, their mission (as given on their website) is ...

Goal: To support the church in fulfilling its commission

Vision: Answers WorldWide is the Missionary Arm of Answers in Genesis. Our purpose is to provide the “global Christian” with answers for his faith (1 Peter 3:14) and to expose the world to the Creator God of the Bible.

Mission:

• We take the absolute truth and authority of the Bible to the world.
• We teach the relevance of a literal Genesis to the mission fields of the world.
• We obey God’s call for global evangelism for all ethnic groups in the world.

Not surprisingly, the big "take home messages" from today's visit seem to be the following:

1. Science is wrong about things like geology, biology, astronomy, etc. and
   
2. the Bible is indisputably correct, and in some cases can even be proven correct.

Interestingly, a lot of the "evidence" provided to justify the second of these claims often amounted to little more than repeating the first assertions above without justification followed by some form of "but the Bible got it right" - but, I'll get to more of that in future posts.

So what are some examples? Here are a couple from the displays in the lobby - before you even get into the "museum" proper!

(Click images to enlarge)