Baby Dinosaurs Rode on Noah's Ark?!It's Official: I've Heard Everything

Who You Callin' Hillbilly?!: That would be you, Kenneth Ham, President of Answers in Genesis-USA. Hey, if the overalls fit...and is that your banjo?

Biblical Creation Museum To Rise in Kentucky in 2007

from The Washington Post

PETERSBURG, Ky. - The guide, a soft-spoken fellow with a scholarly aspect, walks through the halls of this handsome, half-finished museum and points to the sculpture of a young velociraptor.

"We're placing this one in the hall that explains the post-Flood world," explains the guide. "When dinosaurs lived with man."

A reporter has a question or two about this dinosaur-man business, but Mark Looy - the guide and a vice president at the museum - has walked over to the lifelike head of a T. rex, with its three-inch teeth and carnivore's grin.

"We call him our 'missionary lizard,'" Looy says. "When people realize the T. rex lived in Eden, it will lead us to a discussion of the gospel. The T. rex once was a vegetarian, too."

The nation's largest museum devoted to biblical creation science is rising outside Cincinnati. The $25 million Creation Museum stands much of modern science on its head and might cause a paleontologist or three to rend their garments. It holds that the world and the universe are but 6,000 years old and that baby dinosaurs rode in Noah's ark. Officials expect to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors when the museum opens in early 2007.

"Evolutionary Darwinists need to understand we are taking the dinosaurs back," says Kenneth Ham, president of Answers in Genesis-USA, which is building the museum. "This is a battle cry to recognize the science in the revealed truth of God."

Young Earth Creationism - which holds that the Bible is the literal word of God and that He created the universe in seven days - has a more powerful hold on the beliefs of Americans than evolutionary theory or intelligent design. That grip grows stronger by the year.

Polls taken last year showed that 45 percent of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago (or less) and that man shares no common ancestor with the ape. Only 26 percent believe in the central tenet of evolution, that all life descended from a single ancestor. Another poll showed that 65 percent of Americans want creationism taught alongside evolution.