The $27 million Creation Museum, set to open on May 28, located about 7 miles west of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport goes beyond the natural history museum scope to offer you insights into evolution and faith.
Raoul Langin arranges plants around a dinosaur. The museum includes murals and computer-generated visual effects, Image credit: Tom Uhlman
This fossil and dinosaur adventure is reinforced with religious beliefs. Biblical revelations become gospel as celebrations of natural wonders are overwhelmed with allusions to human sin. With Evolution struggling to get its just deserts.
An artist created a primal cat for the Garden of Eden exhibit at the Creation Museum, Image credit: Edward Rothstein
There are 52 videos in the museum, one showing how the transformations wrought by the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 reveal how plausible it is that the waters of Noah’s flood could have carved out the Grand Canyon within days.
Laura Spence paints next to a mechanical Utahraptor, Image credit: Jeff Haynes
There is a special-effects theater complete with vibrating seats meant to evoke the flood, and a planetarium paying tribute to God’s glory while exploring the nature of galaxies.
John Volck paints the head of a sculpture in the Babylon exhibit at the Creation Museum, Image credit: Tom Uhlman
The museum is meant to be more of an imagining of a real habitat, with plant life and landscape reproduced in meticulous detail, Image credit: Jeff Haynes
The Creation Museum dramatizes origins, but sees natural history as divine history. Nearly all fossils, the museum asserts, are relics of that divine retribution. Its mixture of spectacle and narrative is definitely worth a visit though with just a few intermittent invocations of scientific principle.
This Museum offers an alternate world that has its fascinations, even for a skeptic wary of the effect of so many unanswered assertions. Be amazed by a world different from scientific principles yet similar to beliefs.
Source: The New York Times
