The big overpriced embarrassment in Kentucky gets all the attention, but the creation 'museums' are sprinkled all over our country, like flyspecks on a sugar cookie. Mmm-mmmm.
Here's an account of visiting the one in Glen Rose, Texas, run by the big-haired Carl Baugh. Every once in a while I'll tune him in on the TV — he's got a regular creationism show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network — but he's kind of hard to take for very long.
There is an astonishing revelation in the article that I didn't know, and really impels me to visit that place. Guess who looms over the interior of the 'museum' in the form of monumental statuary? It isn't Jesus. Hint: the museum is in Texas.
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Disclaimer: I write the following post as a private citizen. Even though I am a research associate at the museum, my work is done on a volunteer basis in cooperation with museum staff.
I wish I coulda been there ... by all accounts it sounds like the Creozerg visit to the Creation Museum went well.
Why do you care about and/or work in museums? Nina has her own reasons: