Museum of Creation and Earth History
Coordinates: 32°50′42.97″N 116°57′34.59″W / 32.8452694°N 116.9596083°W
The Museum of Creation and Earth History is a young earth creationist promotional facility founded by the Institute for Creation Research at its original headquarters in Santee, California in 1992. It cost $50,000, and took 2 years to complete.[1]
After the Institute for Creation Research moved from Santee to Dallas, Texas in 2008, it sold the Museum to the Life and Light Foundation, a non-profit ministry run by Tom Cantor. The Foundation now has plans for expansion.[2]
The Museum is open to the public from Sunday through Saturday and originally was with free admission, but now charges various admissions based on age. [3] Exhibits claim to prove that the Earth is no older than about 10,000 years, and suggest that man and dinosaurs coexisted before Noah's flood, which also created the Grand Canyon.[4] Also featured are an interpreted walk through the Garden of Eden with a literal depiction of the six days in the Genesis, a dark room with pictures of the planets and stars, scale models of Noah's Ark and the Tower of Babel, an Ice Age room, the Canyon Wall, describing how the Grand Canyon was formed in a matter of weeks or months, rather than the millions of years posited by most geologists, and the Hall of Scholars with pictures and biographies of scientists who believed in creationism rather than accepting evolution. It also has a display about the ICR's RATE project, an effort, in conjunction with other young Earth creationist organizations, to find evidence of a young earth.
References
- ↑ "Museum Pushes Creationism", Associated Press, in The Press-Courier, Sep 20, 1992. Retrieved from Google News 2013-05-18.
- ↑ "life and light foundation". Life and Light Foundation. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
- ↑ "Museum information". Museum of Creation and Earth History. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- ↑ "A Museum That Lies Far, Far Off the Path of Science", Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2005.