The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia

In the beginning...

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. (Genesis 1:31 ESV)

One week from now the Creation Museum opens in Northern Kentucky, the brain-child of Ken Ham of the Answers in Genesis ministry. AiG is dedicated to recovering the Biblical doctrine of creationism, in the literal six day sense rather than the man-pleasing doctrines of the framework hypothesis, allegory or any number of other explanations other than what God has laid down in His Holy Word. This has been years in the making, and I am planning on a trip to Northern Kentucky this fall to visit our old stompin' grounds and show our kids this exhibit. The Cincinnati Enquirer has a large section in today's edition focusing on the impending opening of the Creation Museum, which is expected to draw enormous crowds of Christians from the Midwest and all over the country and the world. It is causing quite a stir and drawing a great deal of attention:

Just a week from opening, a new museum on 42 rural acres just off Interstate 275 has drawn the interest of residents, tourism officials and the international media. Already, NBC's Brian Williams, CNN's Anderson Cooper, PBS' Jim Lehrer and journalists from the BBC, Newsweek, the New York Times and the Washington Post have made trips here to Petersburg, Ky.

It is also drawing opposition of the nastiest sort, from all manner of "open-minded" people:

In an emotionally charged negative article against the Creation Museum, a scientist who has not visited the Museum, has not read any of the teaching signs, nor seen any of the videos, wrote an opinion piece for the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper, in which he used the following terms regarding the Creation Museum exhibits: “scientific fraud,” “lies,” “a travesty,” “false,” “misguided,” “misinformation,” “colossal unreason,” “hypocritical,” “misrepresent,” “bad science,” “manifestly false,” and “religiously motivated fraud.”

The evolutionist who wrote this vitriolic piece was Lawrence M. Krauss, Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University, as well as the Chair of the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society.

As is typical of many professors at secular universities, he tries to scare the public against creation scientists by using emotionally charged language. This shows clearly the bias of such scientists against the Bible. They don’t care what scientific research/facts AiG’s PhD scientists have included in the Museum exhibits—because the Creation Museum is set up to tell people the Bible’s history in Genesis is true, Krauss, because he only allows naturalistic explanations in science for the origin of life, will not even consider anything creation scientists say or write. Maybe the students Krauss is in charge of at the university should write their research papers the same way Krauss has researched the Creation Museum teaching exhibits! Of course, if they did that, they would fail! But their professors can get away with such
an unscientific approach when used against Christians.

So much for the high minded intellectual purity of the academy.

Here is another "wellreasoned" response from an evolutionary disciple:

"Fact is, that for a long time, this museum will be a severe detriment (to) our region's reputation. It will be mentioned in the same breath with the Cincinnati race riots of 2001," says Hubert Kirchgaessner of Hebron. "If anything, this museum is a monument to human gullibility. As a Christian, I take offense at people who are belittling the role of God in the creation of the universe by rejecting reality and compartmentalizing the miracle of evolution into a few Disneyesque episodes that they claim to derive out of the Bible."

This from a man who claims to be a Christian, just one who doesn't believe in God's Word unless he likes what it says, and one who claims that this will be "a severe detriment to our regions reputation" A man who compares this museum to race riots! I wonder what miracles in the Bible Mr. Kirchgaessner finds palatable? Water into wine? Red Sea parting? Jesus being resurrected? Any of that? Does he even believe in Christ rising from the dead? Or is believing that "gullible"?

Ken Ham's response? No doubt something crazed, frothing at the mouth, because that is the kind of people we are! Or not...

"We invite those who don't agree with us to come to the museum and see what we are saying," says Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis and the museum. "We welcome everyone here."

Those tricky Christian fundamentalists, being friendly and open! Curses!

Answers in Genesis has a slogan, and it is a great one: "Prepare to believe."

Amen to that!