"Mainstream scientists worry that...it will be more effective at giving children a distorted view of science."

They should know, since they're so good at it. 

One of the oldest books of the bible give this description of a creature that could easily be evidence of humans living at the same time as "dinosaurs." Job 40:15-24 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

There are many on the left that will believe in anything but God.

AGENDA! AGENDA! AGENDA! My word I can hear their drums beating. They chant "We must suppress dissent!" Over and over and over...creepy. It's good for man to fear God but not for their reasons.

ABC can believe what they want too. Sadly they think that if they work at discrediting a museum that does not fit their belief system (or lack of) that they can get more of the public to believe as they do.

My position is if you do not believe that God created everything then don't tour the museum. By the way there is a Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, TX and I do plan to tour soon. Here is their website. http://www.creationevidence.org/

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!   The sky is falling!!!!   I can't believe it. First there was that "Jesus Camp" where they actually teach young children about Jesus and self-sacrifice and forgiveness.  And now there is this "Creation" museum!!!  What is the world coming to?  Darwin, save us!  ... oh yeah, evolution hasn't actually been proved under scientific conditions in a laboratory, which is one of the prerequsites for something to be considered scientifically valid.   Huh.  "But wait," say the Darwinists, "evolution takes million of years, so you can't prove it in a laboratory."  Precisely, which is why it is a theory and nothing more. "But wait," say the Darwinists, "we may be able to prove it someday under scientific conditions in a laboratory."   Maybe ... someday ... in the future ... it's possible ... maybe ...    I think that's called "faith."  Faith that something might happen, faith that something might be true.  Ah, Darwinism, sounds just like a faith-based religion. 

Believer

I experienced Ken many years ago in a small school auditoreum and he is a great spokesman for the science of creation. What is not known about the science is tons of stuff the msm is not telling. Like 80 foot peach trees suspended upside down in ice of the
Arctic Circle. Why upside down, because trees float with the root ball up and when The Flood occurred, the earth was no longer protected by that upper(7th) layer of water and the poles froze. Fascinating stuff that even caused this Christians chin to drop.

His best line to an evolutionist when they expound on their "theory" is, "were you there?"
Creation has as its proof, recorded history by those most inveterate of note taker/keepers, His Chosen, the Hebrews.

Thank you for this post as I was not aware of the new museum. The ratio of comments is about what I expected from this site. Thanks again.

I apologize for the incredible length in advance.

I may get some flames from posting this, but since I most likely will not have time to get back to this thread after posting, what do I care? It is possible to hold to old earth/older universe beliefs and still be in line with biblical Christianity.

Science tells us that the earth is over 4 billion years old. The Bible says God created everything in six days. Our science could be wrong. What we think is 4 billion years old may only be 4,000. I have trouble accepting that. Fossils give us a pretty good picture of times going back millions of years, but they are incomplete, with so-called 'explosions' of new creatures seemingly appearing out of nowhere with no transitional elements. We may yet find those transitional fossils (the missing link?), but that is unlikely. The time periods between new creatures is too short, and we have such an abundance of fossil records that finding something so completely new is remote at best.

There is a theory that God created everything old (like creating light 'in transit' so it only appears to have travelled a great distance). But this brings about some difficult philosophical issues. It means that God has intentionally deceived us. I have trouble with that, too. It means we can't be sure of anything that has happened in what we call the past (including Christ's death and resurrection). How can you be sure that the things you remember from 5 years or even 5 minutes ago actually happened? Put simply, you can't.

So how do I reconcile these beliefs? Well, I am NOT a theistic evolutionist. The aforementioned fossil explosions seem to discount evolution and provide support for the biblical telling of creation; God spoke the animals into existance fully-formed and mature. But the 'six days' spoken of in the Bible seems to contradict everything else about the fossil records. After all we can't use the fossil record to support Biblical creation by pointing to its gaps, and at the same time brush it aside when it puts the age of the earth at billions of years. Well, I guess you could, but that would make you a hypocrite. Either take the fossil record as a whole, or discount it entirely.

So I take it as a whole. But then I must reconcile the days of creation. Six days. Twenty-four hour days? Possibly. That's the only way the Hebrews of the time would of understood it. But the sun, moon, and stars weren't created until the fourth 'day.' How can you have days without the sun, moon, and stars to define them? Maybe the day was longer. That would take care of the age of the earth, but not the 'fourth day' problem. Or even the first day problem when God created light, separated it from dark, and called them night and day. Day must mean something other than what we consider a day. I'm not a biblical scholar and I don't know Hebrew, but I have studied some who believe that the word we translate into 'day' is used in other places in the Old Testament to mean simply 'a period of time.' This would solve both problems. A day is no longer defined by the sun, and does not have to be 24 hours long. And, after all, what is a day to God. A day is like a million years and all that. Gen 1:2 also tells us that 'the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters' just after the earth was created.

What we're left with is God being intimately involved with his creation over vast amounts of time. For the non-believer, you don't have to play any mental gymnastics to make it all work. But you do have to study, apply some reason and common sense, and work at gaining the knowledge necessary to more fully understand the subject. For the believer, you don't have to water down or turn away from your faith to make it all work. But you do have to study, apply some reason and common sense, and work at gaining the knowledge necessary to more fully understand the subject.

Here is the website I usually go to for such information. (Search for 'testable creation model' for more on this particular subject.) As I said before, I will probably not come back to this article after posting, so any discussion you may want to have will have to be amoungst yourselves. You can PM if you want, but I make no promises. However, I am unlikely to be swayed from my position by any information provided in such a format as this. (I'm not being closed-minded or judgemental, just realistic. I'm simply not around enough to have any kind of meaningful dialog, if such a thing is even possible in this setting. I'm still not convinced it is.)

One more thing for those of faith. No matter what you believe about old earth/young earth creation, keep in mind that it is not a salvation issue. The single message of the Bible is God's grace given freely to those who don't deserve it because of Christ's death and resurrection. Those should, ultimately, be the focus of any religious discussion.