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New Museum Upholds Biblical Creation Account

By Darla Sitton
CBN News Producer

CBN.com – (CBN News) - The Kansas State Board of Education recently gave tentative approval to new science standards that would allow more criticism of the theory of evolution.

A recent poll found that more than half of America's population believes that God created life. Still, many say evolution should be the only theory taught in public school.

One Minnesota family traveled all the way to Arkansas to visit the Museum of Earth History in Eureka. They came to find out if biblical accounts of creation line up with science.

Dawn Sandborg commented, "As a child, it was hard for me to figure out -- to try to make it line up."

The aim of the museum is to showcase scientific finds from a biblical perspective -from creation, and Noah and the flood, to the global ice age.

Museum founder Dr. Thomas Sharp, who has been a science educator since 1964, believes that science supports the biblical idea of a divine creator, and he is planning to launch other museums nationwide.

, "I think it happened by intelligent guidance,” Sharp said. “I think it's impossible to have slime [evolve] to the human brain, no matter how long you say it took. I think that's biologically impossible."

Sharp's belief that life and the universe are too complex to have evolved by chance -- a view known as "intelligent design" -- is one that is gaining credibility in the public arena, where evolution used to be the only view.

President Bush recently said he thinks intelligent design should be taught in schools, right along with evolution, "so people can understand what the debate is about."

But some say there is no debate.

"I have no problem with people talking about religion as religion, or belief as belief. [But] it is extremely dangerous when we talk about religious belief as if it were science," said Alan Leshner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Yet, the theory of evolution is increasingly being challenged.

In Texas, South Carolina, and Georgia, some IMAX theatres refused to show films such as "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea" because they endorse evolution.

And while no one knows exactly where all of this will go from here, one thing is clear. The view that an intelligent designer created the universe seems to be gaining ground.

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