Day 1764
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Kenneth Alfred Ham was born October 20, 1951 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. He is a Christian fundamentalist, and apologist. He is the founder of Answers in Genesis, a Christian apologetics organization, and the creator of the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter. I had previously visited the Ark Encounter (see Day 787).
Tidbit of Information: I originally thought Christian apologetics were apologizing for their beliefs, but learned Apologetics is from the Greek word ἀπολογία, which means “speaking in defense”. Therefore Christian apologetics is the religious discipline of defending religious doctrines through argumentation and discourse. I apologize.
Forty authors writing 66 books over a span of 2,000 years wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit what we know today as the Bible. The Question is: is the Bible just a collection of moral stories or is it full of true, historical accounts? The Creation Museum takes us through Genesis 1–11 in an attempt to answer that question.
The 75,000-square-foot museum cost $27 million dollars, raised through private donations, and opened on May 28, 2007.
Most of their secrets are behind this locked door.
Realizing the purpose of the museum is to “exalt Jesus Christ and dispute the theory of evolution”, you have to take everything with a grain of salt. That being said, the museum is very well done. Throughout the museum, Ham looks at a piece of the world and attempts to give the Naturalistic Evolutionary view and the Biblical view. For example here he compares thoughts on abortion.
Ham advocates biblical literalism, accepting the Book of Genesis creation narrative as historical fact and believing the universe and the Earth were created together approximately 6,000 years ago, contrary to the scientific consensus that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and the universe is about 13.8 billion years old. (In physical cosmology, the age of the universe is the time elapsed since the Big Bang.)
The Bible states that God made the land animals, including dinosaurs, on Day Six, so they date from around 6,000 years ago, according to Ham. On day 6 he also made Adam and Eve. Therefore the dinosaurs and man lived together. The Bible teaches that God created a paradise.
Adam and Eve soon corrupted paradise with sin. Suffering and death was the penalty. As a result, sin, suffering, and death came upon Adam and upon all the world he ruled. So, the First Adam had dominion and control over the world. There was only 1 rule (by Moses’ time there were ten), don’t eat from this tree. But Adam was morally weak, and he broke that one rule. As a result, all mankind must now suffer. It appears to me that God made Adam flawed. He could not help himself. Therefore it is God’s fault. Jesus Christ, as the Last Adam died to remove all our sins. But that did not happen. The day after Christ died, sinning was still going on, and goes on till this day.
It appears that the dinosaurs were fairly intelligent
According to Genesis, God made everything in 6 days and rested on the 7th day. What did he do on the 8th day? What is he doing today? He doesn’t call, he doesn’t write, does he still care?
We know him as Jesus Christ, but back in the day he was Yehōshu’a Ben Yosef, Jeshua to his friends. I was just curious, when he stubbed his toe, or hit a hammer on his thumb, what did he exclaim?
Even as a child in Hebrew School, this thinking made no sense. How about the millions of people in darkest Africa who never heard of Christ? All religions say the same thing, if you don’t believe as we do, you will not go to Heaven.
The inevitable truth appears to be we are the product of Walt Disney’s imagination.
Surrounding the museum were numerous gardens and a petting zoo. With babbling brooks,
Wild flowers
and the animals
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Steven, awesome blog. Loved all the explanations. Dinosaurs were cute too. One nit, Judaism does not hold that non-Jews cannot go to heaven. Everyone is welcome based on the way they lead their lives. Kindness to strangers is highly regarded whatever your religious status, although there is no obligation to import strangers in order to be kind to them.
Where you able to catch what the brook was babbling?
The brook was going “Blah, blah, blah”. Thanks for the update on going to heaven. I remembered it different from Hebrew school. But I have always believed it should be on how you lead your life.
Very interesting museum. As Mom used to say ‘it takes all kinds’. For me at age 85 I’m stronger in my belief about the Word of God and have my ;one-way’ ticket to eternity in Heaven, Of course, I’d love to see all my friends and family there but all I can do is pray they’ll join me, They have to ask for their own ticket themselves. 🙂