Creation Museum launches 'most powerful pro-life exhibit in the world'
By: By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post Reporter
This is an awesome project that the Creation Museum and Answers in Genesis are creating. We are awesomely and wonderfully made in the image of God. We are a fully separate and unique individual from the moment of conception when our fathers sperm enters our mothers egg and it begins the first stage of our fully and completely human development. I like that this site reminds us of the moral reasons why abortion is an abomination but shows the science of our development from our earliest beginning to our birth.
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"Fearfully and Wonderfully Made" opened September 25 and is part of a two-part series answering the question, "When does life begin?" Answers in Genesis
The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, has launched a groundbreaking new pro-life exhibit addressing the question: “When does human life begin?”
The $1.2 million exhibit, titled “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made,” opened Sept. 25 and features life-like models depicting a baby’s development in the womb, 4D ultrasound videos, and biblical and scientific evidence that human life begins at fertilization.
Creation Museum CEO Ken Ham told The Christian Post that he, along with the staff at Answers in Genesis, the ministry behind the museum, wanted to build a pro-life exhibit that would impact people from all walks of life.
“As a ministry, we're all about biblical authority and a Christian worldview,” he said. “Abortion is one of the key social issues of today, and we knew it would be an even bigger political issue this year because of the election. We wanted to make something that was powerful and stunning and would help people be more informed about this issue.”
The name of the exhibit, “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made,” comes from a phrase in Psalm 139:14 : “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”
“The Bible is clear that all humans are made in the image of God and have inerrant value and worth,” Ham said. “We go through the biblical relevance of all of that.”
The exhibit not only focuses on what the Bible says about life, but also examines the science behind genetics, human reproduction, and sperm and egg fertilization. It offers evidence that an unborn baby is not merely an extension of a woman's body, but a unique individual.
“We explain that scientifically at fertilization you have a unique combination of information for both mother and father,” Ham said. “In other words, you are not just a part of a woman’s body. You are scientifically a unique individual at fertilization.”
The research and text for the exhibit was overseen by AiG’s anatomist, David Menton, Ph.D., who served as an award-winning professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for 34 years.
Visually, the exhibit is “exquisite,” Ham said. With the models on display, guests can see how the baby develops over the nine-month period, along with 4D footage of babies growing in the womb. Associated signs present the biblical and scientific evidence that life begins at fertilization. The models, Ham said, are “breathtaking.”
“Our artists and designers couldn't find models that were anywhere near the quality that we wanted, so they used computer programs to design models from a fertilized egg all the way through to a baby,” Ham said. “Each stage corresponds with certain aspects of human development such as when the heartbeat starts, when the fingerprints appear, and so on, all the way through to a baby just before birth.”
The exhibit also deals with difficult issues like miscarriage and abortion, reminding attendees that God’s love covers pain, sorrow, and guilt. As part of the exhibit, the Creation Museum provides resources to pregnancy and counseling centers and adoption.
“We explain that abortion is killing a human being made in the image of God, and that it certainly is against God's Word,” Ham said. “We explain the reality of what a child is, scientifically and biblically.”
Yet, the exhibit stresses “hope,” he said, adding: “We focus on God’s love and forgiveness, and that’s important. We give viewers an understanding that God is a God who forgives, and He's a God of love so that they can be assured of that. It's a very positive exhibit.”
“Fearfully and Wonderfully Made,” he stressed, is “not an anti-abortion exhibit.”
“We do take a stand against abortion, but the exhibit really focuses on the biblical relevance that we’re fearfully and wonderfully made and details from the Bible, what God's Word says about humanity, and how humans are made in God's image,” he explained. “It’s not attacking anyone, but we do deal with the reality of what abortion is.”
“Fearfully and Wonderfully Made” is phase one of a two-part exhibit, Ham said. Currently, designers are building a “much bigger exhibit” with “a lot more information,” including the “incredible design of the placenta” and other aspects many people aren’t aware of.
“There’s going to be a lot more information coming when we get phase two done,” he said. “But I believe personally, 'Fearfully and Wonderfully Made' is the most powerful pro-life exhibit in the world.”
Ham added that in an election season — and with President Trump's nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court — the issue of abortion has become “pretty emotional” for many people.
“I would like to see this exhibit have an impact in regard to that,” he said. “I hope people will see it and become more informed and educated and know how to talk about this issue. It’s a very timely exhibit. I hope it will be used to speak into this issue in our culture.”
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This is the same museum that is home to the Ark Encounter that has displays of dinosaurs on the boat. SMH
After heavy rains damaged the grounds around the Ark Ham sued their insurance company. The original Ark fared better.
Don't want an abortion, don't get one...NONE of your business what a woman does with an unplanned pregnancy.
I agree.
It's every taxpayer's business if that money is used to fund those unplanned pregnancies (and their consequences) and/or abortions.
But it's not. So it's a non-issue.
Please reread my comment 3.2 more carefully and notice that I used the word if .
I know what you said and my comment still stands.
Good! I doubt it will happen. But good!
why not? secular taxpayers subsidize religious cults that promote unamerican and unconstitutional ideologies with tax exemptions and cult members with charity tax credits. fair is fair.
It's far more economical and cheaper in the long run than compelling them to pay for assistance to lower income families or those with unwanted children for 18 years. Besides, why not? We don't exactly have say where our tax dollars go. I'm "compelled" to pay taxes for things I necessarily do not want to bank roll.
We are compelled to pay taxes to support K_12 schools even though we no longer have school aged children.
Much of our federal income taxes goes to developing and selling lethal military hardware
and maintaining troops all over the world, often in harms way
and maintaining nuclear arsenals to threaten other nations.
You want to live here? Pay your taxes and suck it up that not everyone is in agreement about
how the $$ are spent or wasted.
Since there is no child, there's no problem.
Paying taxes has nothing to do with beliefs. So if taxes go to abortions, then you have no argument to make. Besides, can you prove it's specifically your tax money that is actually being used for abortions?
For the 2nd time ... that portion of comment 3.2 is a conditional statement .
Which only a teeny tiny percentage of the world will ever see and a teenier tinier percentage of the world will buy into.
I don't know. It seems a large percentage of the world is quite gullible and/or willfully ignorant. Some people will buy into any nonsense.
No, all that has actual, credible, scientific evidence to support it. I'm talking about willfully ignorant nonsense like god/s doing this or that, creationism nonsense, silly beliefs, or those who buy into such nonsense that ALL lacks any actual supporting empirical evidence.
Not gonna debate any of your statement but will maintain that of all those peoples only an incredibly small minority will ever hear of this sillyness
To be fair, there really is nothing to debate.
Thank you for supporting my statement that only a teeny tiny percentage of the world will ever hear or buy into this bs
Unfortunately, there are those who do buy into such BS.
Oh Jesus, Ken Hamm again?
Scam artist extraordinaire.
Either all life is sacred, or none is.
Humans are not special, just the apex predator on the 3rd rock from our sun.
Humans invented their gods in their own image to excuse their own abysmal behavior toward each other.
Life is life. "Sacred" is just an emotionally driven label we attach to it.
I bet that if you showed that image to anyone without the labels, most would not be able to pick out which is the mammal. But they all do look more like uncooked pieces of shrimp.
The fact that some people actually believe we were created in "god's image" should be a red flag that perhaps god/s is just an invention of our own minds and collective imaginations. But that would require critical thinking and objective analysis.
Some humans are also irrational enough to believe in god/s. But if we cannot be "God" over our own lives, then that negates free will.
A nice sweeping, and ignorant, generalization. Who is saying they have power over other peoples lives exactly? And in what way?
But your comment doesn't really address any of the points in my post. It seems like just more religiously emotional rhetoric.
I don't quite agree with that. I think humans created belief in God because they were in awe of nature, not being able to explain any of it in any other terms.
Human beings inherently know there is something out there bigger than themselves in terms of the grandeur and scale. At one point they began to believe that if they worshipped "gods" the crop would be better or someone they loved or needed wouldnt die from an illness.
Gods explained, in a way, the unexplainable.
I understand that.
Every day something previously explainable is explained.
A comfortable pillow is still just a pillow.
No one knows definitively if God controls this existence and no one ever will. The existence of God cannot ever be proven or disproven. Doesn't matter how many things you "explain".
No. They believe. Some of them, anyway.
No offense John, but the concept of god became a crutch some 13,000 years ago.
It isn't helping our evolution to the stars.
Arguments from athiests don't offend me, ..... I know they can't prove they are right.
Why exactly do we need to evolve to the stars anyway?
That is a reasonable conclusion, and it certainly affirms the various gods associated with natural occurrences in various societies, such as the ancient Greeks and Romans. The monotheistic religions simply take the "1 god fits all" approach. But it's still the same thing. Fortunately, as we have come to understand how nature actually operates, there is less need of god/s as an explanation.
But ultimately, god/s is a failure to explain. It's a theological shrug of the shoulders and an "I don't know" wrapped in a theistic package.
Proving or disproving is not really the issue. It's when someone makes a claim of certainty of and/or for a god that it becomes an issue.
No, most humans only believe that. But such a mentality is probably more of an emotional comfort mechanism.
Neither can theists prove they are. But most atheists do not make claims of certainty, unlike most theists. So the onus of proof is on them.
Because that's how humanity grows, evolves, progresses, and learns. Otherwise, we risk becoming stagnant.
Many would disagree with Catholics too. But all they have is a belief, and nothing more.
That's like saying someone should move to a new house in a new city every year, or grow stagnant. It's just an opinion, not a fact. There is nothing inherently right or wrong about human beings remaining on earth from now until forever if that be the case. Atheists tend to worship science, but science can only take us so far. We need philosophy and food for the "soul". If that were not the case people wouldn't feel the need. Some people need a connection to the spiritual dimension. Nothing wrong with that.
If there was a way to prove there is no God we would have seen it by now. It can't be done because no one knows exactly what they are looking for.
You're arguing against a position nobody here has taken.
How is a lack of belief a belief? There is no evidence for a god. Neither have you provided any, despite repeated challenges to do so.
That's not a good analogy.
Then why do we send probes to other planets and moons in the solar system? Humans seems to have a tendency, if not outright need to explore and learn. That's how we discovered and occupied now countries and continents. Exploring the stars is no different in principle. Only larger in scope. Technological limitations is what will probably keep us on Earth.
If atheists worshipped science, they wouldn't be atheists.
Waxing philosophical is fine. But philosophy won't lead us to new discoveries or technologies.
What does that have to do with exploring or remaining where we are?
A logical fallacy: one cannot prove the non-existence of something. But theists often make claims for a god. Yet, they fail to provide any shred of empirical evidence, much less prove it every time.