Day 3 Creation Museum

Tug w/10 barges

Today ended better than it started….in the morning we will be leaving Little Farm RV Resort never to return again….lol.  As I mentioned, no one was in the office when we got here Wednesday night so we picked a spot.  There were 8 empty sites altogether on the river side of the park with 15-20 other empty sites along the drive.  We chose 164, sorta in the middle of the 8.  When we stopped to pay this morning for two nights, she informed us that site 164 was already reserved for tonight….we’d have to move.  She put us in 166.  I politely asked her if she couldn’t relocate the people coming in to another site and she said no, they were with others.  Ronnie then requested another site further up the road (with no trees…satellite, you know) She put us in 152…So…we went back (already dressed for the Museum visit) and broke camp as they say and moved up 6 sites.  So, tonight when we are back, there’s someone in site 166 (the one she originally moved us to) but no one in site 164—our original site.  We’ll see….but I think she was just being ornery.  It is a beautiful view of the river with barges going up and down it all day and all night, so I won’t complain too much.  Enough of that.

 

The Creation Museum

 

What can I say?  It was awesome, wonderful, really cool, great, extraordinary should do it.  I highly recommend a visit.  It took you through the Seven ‘C”s in God’s Eternal Plan….Creation, Corruption, Castastrophe, Confusion, Christ, Cross, Consummation.  The Museum is on two levels.  There are also many side “venues” with different short movies and musical performances (at least for today’s events) .  Some of the venues are extra $$, but we took advantage of the freebies.  We spent all day in the museum, but there is a huge botanical garden on the grounds, petting zoo, camel rides, ….much to do and see. 

 



Adam and Eve with the Serpent in the Garden of Eden

The graphics in the museum are really, really good.  The characters are so lifelike..they look right at you while they talk or roar, whatever the case may be. The theme throughout, of course, was salvation through Jesus.  But a lot was also directed at the Creationism versus Evolutionism.  Dinosaurs were prominent with the explanations of how they are included with the Creationism view.  They aren’t the pre-historic creatures that are so popular….they were on the ark and lived with humans after the Flood.  The fossils that have been found and labeled millions of years old…..found in the sediment left from the flood….not more than 6000 years old.  Very interesting.  And so easy to believe.  There are lots of replicas of many dinosaurs whose bones have been found.  Kids would love it.  Lots of interaction for them.  I pressed a button on a moniter in front of “Noah” for a question of how all the animals were gathered up and put on the ark and he looked up and said, “Oh, you want to know…..”  and he proceeded to explain to me that God brought the animals to the ark, they didn’t go get them.  “It was hard enough”, he said,”to get them through the door.”

I have videos that I can't seem to get posted....not much of a signal here.  So, I will try again tomorrow night to post them.  They are pretty cool.

 

One of the most interesting things I saw on display in the exhibits was a scroll of the Torah that was confiscated from Saddam Hussein during the Iraq War.  It was the entire story of Noah.

 

As we were leaving, Ken Ham, the Australian who built the Museum (first in Australia then here) happened by and signed autographs and we had our picture taken with him.  He’s going to be building an exact replica of the Ark near the site of the Museum, using the same techniques and methods that Noah and his sons used.  They are starting on it next year.  You can read about it at ArkEncounter.com.   

 

 Noah’s Café is a great place to eat..reasonable prices..and an outdoor patio overlooking the pond/gardens.  At the end of the day, we could text them and they would text us back with a coupon for a free drink.

 

This was great.  I encourage everyone to consider visiting it in the future.  And plan to spend the entire day.

 

We leave tomorrow towards the East.  I think our destination is somewhere in Pennsylvania.