A visual tour of the Creation Museum

This past week, Deputy Editor Nate Anderson and I traveled down to Petersburg, Kentucky to cover the debate between Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ken Ham, the president and CEO of both Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum. The morning after the debate, we headed back over to the Creation Museum to take in the sights and to further investigate some of the things that caught our eye in our brief walkabout before the debate.

If you don't hold to a literalist account of the creation narrative in Genesis 1-2, walking through the Creation Museum can be unsettling. There are fossils, incredibly detailed dioramas, and really slick-looking exhibits—all alongside explanations that I never saw in any science classroom.

Here there be dragons

One of the first things you'll notice when walking into the museum lobby is a preoccupation with dragons. There's a giant Chinese dragon suspended from the ceiling, pictures of dragons, and small displays making the case that tales of dragons throughout recorded history are actually descriptions of dinosaurs.