Creation Museum Will Show Gospel's Scientific Truth
by Mary Rettig
October 21, 2004
(AgapePress) - The president of the creation apologetics group, Answers in Genesis, says a new museum about Earth's history will be a great tool to help Christians to defend their faith.Dr. Ken Hamm says AIG's Creation Museum will be a walk-through education in the "Seven C's" of history. "In other words," he explains, it will include exhibits about "creation in six days and what God did during those six days; corruption, the entrance of sin and death; catastrophe, the flood of Noah's day; confusion, the tower of Babel; then Christ, cross, consummation."
What the designers of the museum are attempting to do, Hamm says, is to show what he calls "the real history of the world," in an exciting, entertaining, and memorable format. "And as we walk through biblical history with life-size dioramas, animated figures of people, dinosaurs, waterfalls," he explains, "it's going to be like that all the way through, and we'll be answering the questions of the age."
And the answers to these questions, the head of AIG asserts, will demonstrate that the world's popular conception of history is wrong. Then, in place of that mistaken history, the museum's exhibits will offer the foundations of the gospel and evidence of the Bible's truth.
In the past, Hamm and his group have educated and ministered to the public through traveling speakers, literature, and videos. But now that AIG has begun construction on its new museum, the ministry is creating a medium that will draw the public to is message.
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Hamm says the site chosen for the new facility is in Florence, Kentucky, a choice not immediately obvious to most. "A lot of people say to us, 'Why would you build a creation museum like that? I mean, this is a world center, and people are going to come from all over the world here. Why would you pick northern Kentucky?'" he says.
But AIG's president points out that nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population is within a day's travel of the museum's location. "Actually, northern Kentucky is part of the Greater Cincinnati area," he says, "and the museum property where the facility is being constructed is just two exits west of Cincinnati's international airport. We have a great international airport here. In fact it's a Delta hub."
The Creation Museum is set to open in the spring of 2007. As the building of the facility nears completion, Hamm says its "wow factor" is increasing, and exhibit designers are continuing to develop its many one-of-a kind attractions based on scientific and biblical evidence.
