Museum of Creation and Earth History
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The Museum of Creation and Earth History is a young earth creationist museum founded by the Institute for Creation Research
at its original headquarters in Santee, California
in 1970. After the Institute for Creation Research moved from Santee to Dallas, Texas
in 2008, the institute sold the museum to the Life and Light Foundation, a non-profit ministry run by Tom Cantor. The Life and Light Foundation now has future plans for expansion.
The museum is open to the public from Monday through Saturday with free admission. It features exhibits such as an interpreted walk through the Garden of Eden
with a literal depiction of the six days in the Genesis, a dark room with pictures of the planets and star
s, scale models of Noah's Ark
and the Tower of Babel
, an Ice Age
room, the Canyon Wall, describing how the Grand Canyon
was formed in a matter of weeks or months, rather than the millions of years posited by mainstream geologists, the Hall of Scholars with pictures and biographies contrasting scientists who believed in creationism and rather than accepting evolution
. It also has a room showing the ICR's RATE project, an effort, in conjunction with other young Earth creationist organizations, to find evidence of a young earth.
Institute for Creation Research
The Institute for Creation Research is a Christian institution in Dallas, Texas that specializes in education, research, and media promotion of Creation Science and Biblical creationism. The ICR adopts the Bible as an inerrant and literal documentary of scientific and historical fact as well as...
at its original headquarters in Santee, California
Santee, California
Santee is a suburban city in San Diego County, California with a population of 53,413 at the 2010 census. Although it is a part of the East County region, Santee is located just from the Pacific Ocean. The city is connected to the coastline by State Route 52, a six-lane freeway that runs from...
in 1970. After the Institute for Creation Research moved from Santee to Dallas, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
in 2008, the institute sold the museum to the Life and Light Foundation, a non-profit ministry run by Tom Cantor. The Life and Light Foundation now has future plans for expansion.
The museum is open to the public from Monday through Saturday with free admission. It features exhibits such as an interpreted walk through the Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden is in the Bible's Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man, Adam, and his wife, Eve, lived after they were created by God. Literally, the Bible speaks about a garden in Eden...
with a literal depiction of the six days in the Genesis, a dark room with pictures of the planets and star
Star
A star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth...
s, scale models of Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark is a vessel appearing in the Book of Genesis and the Quran . These narratives describe the construction of the ark by Noah at God's command to save himself, his family, and the world's animals from the worldwide deluge of the Great Flood.In the narrative of the ark, God sees the...
and the Tower of Babel
Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel , according to the Book of Genesis, was an enormous tower built in the plain of Shinar .According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar, where...
, an Ice Age
Ice age
An ice age or, more precisely, glacial age, is a generic geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers...
room, the Canyon Wall, describing how the Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park, the 15th national park in the United States...
was formed in a matter of weeks or months, rather than the millions of years posited by mainstream geologists, the Hall of Scholars with pictures and biographies contrasting scientists who believed in creationism and rather than accepting evolution
Evolution
Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...
. It also has a room showing the ICR's RATE project, an effort, in conjunction with other young Earth creationist organizations, to find evidence of a young earth.