The Northern Kentucky based Answers in Genesis Creation Museum continues to draw both crowds and publicity. The following article by Dylan Lovan (Associated Press) appeared in several papers across the United States: Miami Herald Sunday, The Anniston Star, Los Angeles Times, Salt Lake Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Winston-Salem Journal, Boston Herald, San Diego Union Tribune, and dozens of other media outlets.
Of course, the release of Bill Maher’s docudrama, Religulous, and subsequent media PR blitz, have added to the Creation Museum’s media exposure for October.
A year later, Creation Museum still claims big crowds
by Dylan T. Lovan
The Detroit News, p. C1 and C3.
13 Oct 2008
The museum exhibits are taken from the Old Testament, but the special effects are pureHollywood: a stateof-the-art planetarium, animatronics and a massive model of Noah’s Ark, all intended to explain the origins of the universe from a biblical viewpoint.
The Creation Museum, which teaches life’s beginnings through a literal interpretation of the Bible, is claiming attendance figures that would make it an unexpectedly strong draw less than a year and a half after it debuted. More than a half-million people have toured the Petersburg, Ky., attraction since its May 2007 opening, museum officials say.
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