2013 Creation Museum news

Notes

Syndicated stories (Associated Press-AP, United Press International-UPI, AFP, Reuters, etc.) are noted when available. Not all instances of story syndication are listed.

Jun 13. Cincinnati.com. Cincinnati/Kentucky Enquirer website. Cincinnati, Ohio. Museums resolve Internet chat spat by Mark Hansel.
"“While we at Answers in Genesis do not agree with the teaching of evolution and millions of years at the Cincinnati Museum Center ... we don’t discourage people from visiting there and we don’t publicly attack them in such a manner as Percy has done to the Creation Museum,” Ham wrote."

Jun 9. Lexington Herald-Leader. Lexington, Kentucky. Creation Museum plans to add zip lines and sky bridges. Page C3.
"Zovath says the hope is that the zip lines attract people who wouldn't normally visit--and that they will decide it's worth a little extra cash to check out the museum's message."

Jun 4. Cincinnati Enquirer, City Edition. Cincinnati, Ohio. Creation Museum Adding new 'zip' to build attendance by Mark Hansel. Pages B1 and B3.

Jun 4. Cincinnati Enquirer, Hamilton County Edition. Cincinnati, Ohio. Creation Museum Adding new 'zip' to build attendance by Mark Hansel. Pages B1 and B3.

Jun 4. Kentucky Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Creation Museum Adding new 'zip' to build attendance by Mark Hansel. Pages B1 and B3.

May 11. Kentucky Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Visitors racing to NKY by David Schuh. Page A1 and A6.
"NKY's Leading Tourist Attractions...Creation Museum in Boone County."

May 11. SA Now (Adelaide Advertiser). Adelaide, South Australia. Australia. Monkey Business by Ian Henschke. Page xx.
"But you won’t see that referred to at Kentucky’s $27m Creation Museum. It was created by an Australian called Ken Ham in 2007. It’s a vast complex compared to the SA Museum. It has a zoo, a botanic gardens, a planetarium and a range of theatres and displays, some showing humans and dinosaurs living on the Earth at the same time."

May 11. Adelaide Now. Adelaide Advertiser website. Adelaide, South Australia. Australia. Monkey Business by Ian Henschke.

Apr. Rhetoric & Public Affairs. East Lansing, Michigan. "Prepare to Believe": The Creation Museum as Embodied Conversion Narrative by John Lynch. Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2013. Pages 1-27.
"The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, offers a “spatial sermon” to convince visitors to reject the theory of evolution in favor of Young Earth Creationism, a literal reading of the biblical creation story. The museum combines strategies from the journalistic discussion of the debate with the form of a conversion narrative. The goal of this embodied conversion narrative is to convince visitors that the evidence for creationism and evolution is equivalent and insuffıcient for deciding the issue, and the only way to adjudicate the issue is to accept what the museum’s creators believe to be the transparent wisdom of the Bible."

Apr 12. Kentucky Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Signs lead way to Boone Co. hot spots by Stephanie Salmons. p. C7.
"Brown signs are sprouting along Boone County roadways, directing drivers to a number of destinations including the Gaines Tavern History Center in Walton, the Creation Museum in Petersburg and the Anderson Ferry in Hebron."

Apr 2. University of Cincinnati News. Cincinnati, Ohio. UC Researcher Examines ‘Spatial Sermon’ Offered by the Creation Museum by Dawn Fuller. 1 p.
"Lynch says museums – especially history museums – are meant to give audiences a point of view on the past and on why we need to care about that particular part of our past. “The environment is constructed by how you get from point-A to point-B. I think the Creation Museum is very much like that as well. Visitors are grounded by the story of the Bible from the moment they get in line and start moving through.”"

Mar/Apr. Skeptical Inquirer. Amherst, New York. Conference Report [CSICon 2012, Nashville] by Kendrick Frazier. Pages 12-19.
"The visit by Richard Wiseman, Jon Ronson, and Rebecca Watson to the Creation Museum in Kentucky didn't happen. Recounted Watson: "They said yes, you can film. But you can't make fun of us. We ended up skipping it."

Jan 23. Washington Times. Washington, D.C. Citadel, Glenn Beck’s Independence, USA, PayPal’s Thiel lead right’s utopian experiments by Patrick Hruby.
" "Again, there’s a sense of creating a counterculture, the attempt to create a counter-intellectual world," Mr. Rosenthal said. “Especially in their plans to be visited like Colonial Williamsburg, these communities seem like a cross between the Henry Ford Museum village and the Creation Museum in Kentucky."

Jan 23. Washington Times. Washington, D.C. Right, Away: The New Epatriates by Patrick Hruby. Pages C1, C5.

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