I lived in the South during my childhood and I remember a miniature golf course that featured fairy tale characters…it went out of business….but that is what this Creation Museum is promoting…fairy tales. I can’t imagine it luring in enough tourists to spend money there…family friendly or not!! And certainly not organized around scientifically based evidence! They really need to dance around the term “science” don’t they? Isn’t this more of a “theme park”? Is it being taken seriously??

Who is backing such an odd venture? This guy from the “Young Earth” movement? I’m very curious about this offshoot of religious “theology” in our culture and institutions. I’ll have to do some digging around about the man, Ken Ham, (what a name)…he was on a quick interview on GMA and he looked like a slick salesman! And I’m concerned about the power this “movement” seems to have to redefine Darwin’s ideas and dismiss his revolutionary theories and dismantle his brilliant efforts.

I remember back when Rev. Falwell made the news by threatening a school board with “God’s wrath” when they dared to question creationism in a science class…or was it Pat Robertson? But anyway, whoever it was, there was an effort to put little stickers(ie: Warning Labels) on Biology textbooks in the South that warn about Evolution…is that still going on? I live in the Midwest so I was curious about other parts of the country and how Evolution is taught in classrooms (or avoided, diluted, etc). Do school board members still have the power to affect how science is taught in public schools? Home schooling may be producing recruits for the “cause” but public schools??? There is an old play I remember called “Inherit the Wind” that had a school teacher put in jail for being subversive enough to mention the Evolution/Creationist Debate. Based on the Scopes (Sp?) court trial that actually took place…this issue needs to be re-visited. History sure seems to repeat itself these days.

The way I look at it, there is natural history and there is “supernatural mumbo jumbo”…and the two should not meet as some sort of blended, watered down excuse for “science”…which this Creation Museum seems to promote. The “entertainment value” of the Bible goes without saying…but is this what fundamentalist Christians want? To create the spectacle of miracles and “faith-healing” for financial gain and as genuine science? To thump the Bible over peoples’ ignorant heads?? They are making themselves huge targets of ridicule, nationally and internationally. Or is this part of their historical plan to be “persecuted” for their beliefs? The ever present “persecution complex” lives on in some faith communities..