2013 Creation Museum news

Notes

• Article titles in italic indicate the story appeared in the print edition.

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

April

• 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.”"

March

• 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."

January

• Jan. Scientific American. Washington, D.C. Creation, Evolution and Indisputable Facts : A science teacher asks if scientists and biblical literalists can get along by Jacob Tanenbaum. Page 11.

• 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.