Day 6 - The Creation Museum was also an amazing part of our
trip. I really liked how they centered everything on the 7 Cs of History,
Creation, Corruption, Catastrophe, Confusion, Christ, Cross, and Consummation,
and presented the evidence supporting the biblical worldview for that C.
The boys loved all the dinosaurs and reading the different
legends about man’s encounters with dinosaurs, many of which might actually be
true stories or at least based on true stories.
We enjoyed the Created Cosmos show at the Stargazers
Planetarium! It made you realize just how small you really are and how big God
is!
The little kids enjoyed watching the turtles in the turtle
tank.
Many of you have probably heard of Charles Darwin’s Galapagos
finches. This is one of the reasons for his theory of evolution. This is their
rebuttal for it:
“Finches come in an astonishing variety of sizes, shapes and
colors. Biologists have discovered hundreds of species thriving in all sorts of
environments.
In spite of their variety, many species of finches can still
breed with each other. This can only be possible if all finches are related.
Scientists are puzzled how so many finch species could
arise, displaying such a vast array of traits. The Bible provides the
explanation. In the beginning of time, six thousand years ago, God created
every kind of bird, including the finch kind, and He gave them the ability to
“multiply upon the earth.”
Although often viewed as an icon of evolution, Darwin’s
finches serve as a perfect model of variation within a created kind.
In Gen 1:21 we learn that God created “every winged bird
according to its kind.” Baraminologists, scientists who study kinds, have
determined that “kind” is likely equivalent to the “family” level (in relation
to common classification terminology). All of Darwin’s finches belong to the
same family, Emberizidae, and therefore likely belong to the same created kind
(other families of birds may also belong to this kind).
Natural selection (in addition to other mechanisms) acting
in different environments, such as varying weather, food sources, and
competitors on the Galapagos Islands where the finches reside, has caused
fluctuations in the populations of finches and possibly led to finch speciation
but never a finch evolving into another kind of organism. What we observe is
the selection of existing genetic information for beak size and other
characteristics, not the addition of new genetic information as required for
molecules-to-man evolution.”
The chameleon was fun! He looked like he was seriously
considering eating Sydnee’s finger!
We also enjoyed watching Men in White, The Last Adam and The Wild Brothers: Tiger Trail at the Special Effects Theater.
The Horseshoe Crab is what is known as a living fossil. It
still looks the same today as it did 4,000 years ago! Not what we’d expect if
evolution really took place.
This is a fossil of a perch eating a herring. Again not
something we would see if it took a long period of time for fossilization to
take place.
In the paleontology room
These fossilized eggs were neat!
Elly & Selah in front of the cave
Titus was so happy he could touch a dinosaur!
Reading about the Lucy fossil
This was an interesting and sad picture of how human reason
leads to questioning the Bible which leads to abandoning God’s Word.
Another sad fact
I thought this was really neat...Exodus 20:11 in Hebrew & English
This tunnel full of stars was beautiful!
The Garden of Eden….I could’ve spent all day in here. It was
so beautiful, amazing and peaceful.
The girls
The boys
Family
Watching the Ark Encounter be built
The Blind Cavefish are also often used as proof of
evolution. Here is there rebuttal for that:
“Although these fish are often viewed as an “icon of
evolution,” they instead represent fish that are very well adapted for the cave
environment thanks to the combined effects of mutations and natural selection.
These processes have led to a decrease in genetic information (loss of eyes and
pigmentation) not an increase as required for molecules-to-man evolution.
After Noah’s Flood, the world was very different, having man
new environments, like caves, which might not have existed to any great extent
in the pre-Flood world that perished. Original created variability, or in some
instances, variability due to mutations, allowed plants and animals, including
fish, to quickly colonize these new environments."
Ebenezer, the Allosaurus, is a full grown Allosaur
discovered in Colorado.
Dr. Crawley’s Insectorium was neat and creepy at the same
time. I couldn’t believe the size of some of the bugs!
The boys had a great time in Buddy Davis’s Dino Den
This was a neat dedication to Ken Ham’s parents (the
Creation Museum, Ark Encounter and Answers in Genesis founder)
More family pictures
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