One of the United Kingdom’s major newspapers gave prominent coverage to creationist activities in the U.S., Australia, and Britain. Mentioned were: the Creation Museum, Genesis Expo, Ross Rosevear and the Creation Science Movement, John Mackay and Creation Research, Paul Taylor and Answers in Genesis, the Genesis Flood book, Monty White (formerly head of Answers in Genesis-UK), Geoff Chapman and the Creation Trust, Todd Wood and the Center for Origin Research, Paul Gardner and Biblical Creation Ministries, Sylvia Baker (author of Bone of Contention), John Peet and the Biblical Creation Society, and Kurt Wise and the Center for Science and Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Whew! Good coverage and something to excite evolutionary activists!
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Defying Darwin
The Guardian, G2 supplement, (United Kingdom), pg. 1, 4-7
by Steven Moss
February 17, 2009
The ideas behind the theory of evolution have been scientific gospel for decades – and yet creationists refuse to go the way of the dinosaurs. Who are they? And what do they believe?
They do it differently in the US. The Creation Museum in Cincinnati (motto: “Prepare to believe!”) measures 70,000 sq ft, cost $27m to build, was designed by someone from Universal Studios, and promises “murals and realistic scenery, computer-generated visual effects, over 50 exotic animals, lifesized people and dinosaur animatronics, and a special-effects theater complete with misty sea breezes and rumbling seats”. The museum, opened in 2006 by creationist group Answers in Genesis to promote “true history”, looks Edenic on its website.
By contrast, Britain’s creation museum, Genesis Expo, is housed in a former bank next to the bus station on the harbour front in Portsmouth. It does not appear to have any connection with Hollywood, and is an animatronicfree zone. The sign stretching across the front of the building is peeling, an elderly volunteer from a local church is manning the front desk, and the museum is only slowly converting its stock of creationist videos to DVD. The upside is that Genesis Expo is free to enter.
