1 Month of Creation

It’s now been exactly 1 month since the Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati. To say the least, it has generated tremendous amounts of controversy, for its assertion that the Earth was created in six days about 6,000 years ago as described in the Bible. This is not a blind-faith assertion, however, as they make the case that the scientific evidence actually fits the young-earth perspective better than the theory of evolution, which is of course the current ruling paradigm in modern scientific thought. While, as expected, there have been myriad vitriolic screeds about the new museum masquerading as “news” articles in the mainstream media, there also have been some pretty fair and even-handed articles, such as this one from the Toledo Blade and this one from the New York Times. I’ve been looking forward to this museum opening for quite some time, and I think that a museum of its kind is long overdue. In fact, back in late July 2005 my brother Nathan & I were able to take a tour of the Creation Museum on our way back from a conference in Virginia. And even though pretty much all of the exhibits were still very much under construction at that point, we both came away very impressed. The professionalism and very high quality of the exhibits is actually something that even the most vocal of critics of the Creation Museum admit, so there’s no doubt that everything is designed very well. The Creation Museum’s goal is not simply to create a new little creationists, but primarily to help lead people to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and to strengthen the faith of those who are already Christians. After the series of exhibits leading from Creation to the Flood to the Cross (with much more than that, too), there is a small chapel at the end of the tour. The museum is expected to draw over 250,000 visitors this year, and hopefully it will touch countless lives for Christ. Kudos to the folks at Answers in Genesis for dreaming big and coming through with this wonderful new museum!
On another note, my goal of winning a set of tennis from Ben will have to wait. In fact, so will my intermediate goal of winning more than one game in a set against him. It was pretty sticky outside, but we played four sets tonight, with Ben winning them all, 6-1, 6-0, 6-0, 6-1. Interestingly, it didn’t matter how many (or how few, maybe that’s the better way to phrase it) points I got in any particular game, since Ben was 24-0 in games in which he scored at least one point. Just a little fun fact I made note of when I won my second game (well, not so fun for me — there was even a game in the fourth set in which I was up 40-15, but still lost, argh!!). If I can ever get a little more consistent with my serve (and not make so many double faults) I should be able to compete with Ben and give him a bit more of a challenge.
I was quite heartened this morning when I found out that the “comprehensive” “immigration” bill was killed in the U.S. Senate, 53-46! Three cheers for the death of this atrocious Bush-McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill! Hopefully some Senators with their heads screwed on straight can start introducing some real immigration reform, starting with forcing the government to secure our borders to stop the invasion of illegal immigrants. I’m all for legal immigration, and think more immigrants should be allowed in, but the government needs to *enforce* its laws and its borders before I’ll trust them with any sweeping reforms on immigration. Once the border is enforced, then we can figure out what to do about the 12-20 million illegal immigrants who are already living in this country.
One final thought for tonight. Not that I doubted that Australia is an awesome country, but this just serves as a little confirmation. Quite a contrast to the British!