Compared with the $27 million (13.6 million pounds) Creation Museum that just opened its doors in Kentucky, Canada's first museum dedicated to explaining geology, evolution and paleontology in biblical terms is a decidedly more modest affair.
The Big Valley Creation Science Museum, which opens next week, was built for C$300,000 in the village Big Valley, Alberta, population 308, a two-hour drive northeast of Calgary.
The Canadian museum features displays on how men once walked among dinosaurs, a giant model of Noah's Ark, a set of English scrolls tracing the family of King Henry VI back to the Garden of Eden, and an interactive bacterial flagellum.
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The opening of the Petersburg, Kentucky, museum has attracted the ire of scientists and moderate Christians who object to a museum that teaches that the Earth is 6,000 years old.
The Big Valley museum has been more low key, with a few stories in local newspapers discussing the facility.
The museuem "attract[s] the ire of scientists", and evolution and the age of the earth are merely "widely accepted view[s]" that this institution is going to "contest." It all sounds so genteel and civil, doesn't it? I wonder if journalists have to undergo special lobotomies to remove the parts of their brain that let them use harsh language and write articles explaining that there really is an objective reality with facts, and that some people can simply be wrong. I'd like to think that the world now would be a better place if journalists didn't simply act as stenographers for whomever they talked to and actually did something to verify or contradict their claims. If only they could do something as simple as this.
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