Scripture-Affirming Creation Museum Set to Open in June

By Allie Martin, OneNewsNow.com

A state-of-the-art museum dedicated to the biblical account of creation will open this spring in northern Kentucky. The 50,000-square-foot Creation Museum, which is located in the Greater Cincinnati area, is scheduled to open its doors on Memorial Day.

The Creation Museum is a project of Answers in Genesis (AiG), an apologetics ministry based in Kentucky. The new attraction will feature many educational displays, including life-size dinosaur models, fossil and mineral collections, and other live exhibits designed to teach and to proclaim the authority of biblical scripture.

Dr. Ken Ham, president of AiG, says the $27-million project will be more than just entertaining. "It's as good as anything Disneyland or Universal Studios could do, but it's not entertainment; it's 'edutainment,'" he insists. "It's education, using these exhibits."

As interesting as the museum itself promises to be, Ham believes it will be just as interesting to watch how it is received. "I believe it's going to make not just an impact in the Creation world and not just an impact in North America," he says, "but an impact in Christendom. I believe it's [going to be] a significant event in Christendom when this museum is open."

In fact, various media from around the world have already expressed avid and increasing interest in the Creation Museum, the AiG spokesman notes. However, he says, as the opening date draws closer, attacks from secularists have increased as well.

In talking to these secularists, Ham points out, "you realize these sort of people don't want answers; what they want to do is publicly ridicule Christians, publicly ridicule the Bible." Whenever he is interviewed by people like that, the creation apologist says, "I'm also thinking of the people who are listening, and [I'm] trusting that God will use the answers that I give to open their hearts to the truth."

Ham calls the Creation Museum a "walk through history" that will counter evolutionary natural history exhibits that turn minds against Christ and scripture. He says AiG's new, alternative "edutainment" place, opening this June, will proclaim the Bible as supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice that scripture addresses.

(Source: OneNewsNow.com & Faith News))