DINOS IN THE DEN:
Posted 6/5/2007

Creation Museum Opens A New Exhibit
Dedicated To Creation’s Mysterious Behemoths

PETERSBURG, Ky, July 5, 2007 – The tremendously successful Creation Museum near Cincinnati unveiled its newest exhibit on July 4 – a 4,500 square foot, two-story Dinosaur Den that features sculpted dinosaurs along with bones from the creatures and, on display soon, real dinosaur eggs.

Its opening came on a day when 2,000 guests visited the museum. That shattered the previous record for a Wednesday by more than 700 guests. Crowds of 3,000-plus have already been seen at this high-tech center. Including pre-grand opening events, over 65,000 guests have toured the facility through today – indicating the museum may exceed its projections of 250,000 visitors during the first year of operations.

“We are so thankful to have the resources to build a quality exhibit devoted to the very creatures so closely associated with the arguments about creation and evolution,” said Ken Ham, co-founder and president of Answers in Genesis, the ministry that built the $27 million Creation Museum. “We are hoping that people of all ages will enjoy the dinosaur displays and learn that the science of paleontology supports biblical creation.”

Over the past decade, the Creation Museum staff has been collecting items such as dinosaur bones and eggs, and then building major exhibits related to dinosaurs in order to use them as a major teaching tool in the Creation Museum. The Dino Den features many of these items and a dozen dinosaurs, including an exquisitely sculpted 40-foot-long Tyrannosaurus Rex built by Buddy Davis, plus a cast of a huge Triceratops.

There are also videos and a theater where guests can watch a 12-minute film, recorded on location at a castle in England (a nation where many dragon legends originate). The film shows how the Bible explains the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs. Guests then move upstairs to a stunning bookstore that resembles the sitting room of a medieval English castle.

“Most cultures have major flood stories in their past,” Ham noted. “We believe that is because the earth was once flooded, and it lends support to the argument that there really was a Noah’s ark. In the same way, almost every culture has stories about dragons. We believe this is because people and dinosaurs inhabited the earth at the same time, and what we would call a dinosaur, the ancients referred to as dragons.”

AiG is a biblical apologetics ministry, which conducts more than 300 teaching meetings each year, hosts an award-winning Web site (www.AnswersInGenesis.org), and produces the “Answers” radio program heard on 860 stations across America.

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