Did you know there was a museum dedicated to creationism? Yes, of course there are churches who preach this. No, I mean an actual 65,000 square foot building with exhibits and “scientific” evidence that some supreme being created the universe. Unsurprisingly, it’s located in Kentucky, in a suburb of Cincinnati.

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What does this “museum” offer? An example is a drama presenting the story of Gomer, a prostitute who marries Hosea, who is good, then bad, then saved by Hosea.

“Museum” admission: $20

Show tickets: $10

Sense that “god loves you”: Priceless

(And we would be remiss if we didn’t mention that you can donate to spread the “museum’s word,” shop in the “museum store” (for Moses action figures fighting dinosaurs no doubt,) and for on-site food at amusement park prices.)

I could go on about a place I never visited, or I could enlist a visitor tell you about the museum in his own words:

Many exhibits at “world-class” museums cost between 20 and 50 million dollars. But the entire Creation Museum right outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, cost just $27 million—and it is definitely world class. On the other hand, however, it’s not world class.

Interesting that in the first paragraph, we already know the outcome: the museum is not world-class, despite spending $27M to build it.

The lobby itself rivals any full-size exhibit at a secular museum. A young child plays with a squirrel next to two small dinosaurs that watch the visitors walk under giant cypress trees.

Um, unless this is fantasy land, children, squirrels, and dinosaurs never played together. Oh, let’s not let facts get in the way of our visit report.

The Creation Museum goes far beyond mere science. It doesn’t elevate man’s intellect by using science to “prove” Scripture. Instead, God’s Word is placed first and human reason is last.

Which is exactly why visitors to this so called museum will be separated from as much money as is humanly possible during their visit to this thinly veiled church masquerading as a museum. If you don’t use your [god given] intellect, then you deserve to be fleeced, repeatedly and roughly.

Secular scientists claim that the geological strata show less complex organisms at the bottom and more complex ones as you go up, attributing this to the evolutionary process over millions and millions of years. But if we consider the order of burial during the cataclysmic activity of the Flood, it makes perfect sense that sea creatures would be buried first, followed by invertebrates and finally by mammals and other vertebrates. The placard shown here gives an example of how the sequence could have worked during the first few hours of the Flood.

OK, we’re presented with a theory. Let’s see them back it up with evidence. If the theory was valid, wouldn’t the fossil record show it during other floods? And what about that pesky carbon dating that throws the timeline off by tens of millions of years? That’s the thing about science, it’s not always right and can be proven right or wrong through experimentation and evidence. And, that’s the thing about religion, it can never be proven wrong despite the evidence and experimentation.

Somewhat surprisingly, the museum does not devote inordinate amounts of space to “disproving” evolutionary ideas or “proving” creation.

Clearly, there is enough myth to lure in the flock, so why bother with a full-frontal attack that even the dullest of minds might be able to pick apart. Are we finished with David MacMillan III’s review? Thankfully yes.

Let’s call a spade a spade. This is a church pretending to be a museum, an exorbitantly expensive church no less, using a museum-like approach to secure visitors who cling to a mythology that has absolutely nothing to do with facts or science. It exists for the sole purpose of separating people from their money. Now, if people want to believe in myths, that’s their business. If they want to pay to visit places that discuss their myths, also their business. Whatever people want to believe in for their own peace of mind/entertainment, that’s fine.

But when those myths are advanced as fact and foisted upon others, particularly as part of our political and judicial systems, that’s where the line has to be drawn. Otherwise, what’s the difference between our society and a fundamentalist society like Iran? Nothing.