Tim Ellsworth

The new Creation Museum built by Answers in Genesis opened this week with much fanfare — and protests by those who disagree with what the museum is promoting.

I’m fascinated by the amount of vehement opposition to this museum. Of course most scientists disagree with it. But why are they going to such great lengths to protest? If someone opened a museum touting the truth of aliens living among us, I’d disagree with their conclusions, but I wouldn’t feel the need to stage a protest. If I were firmly convinced that my position is the correct one, I wouldn’t feel threatened by someone promoting an opposing viewpoint.

The answer, of course, is that for evolutionists, this museum is doing more than offering a scientific theory with which they disagree. It is providing scientific evidence that their very worldview of naturalism is based on a faulty premise. For so many scientists, evolution is much more than science. It’s their religion. And they know that Ken Ham’s Creation Museum provides compelling evidence that their religion is a false one.

As Chuck Colson writes in “How Now Shall We Live”:

“The truth is that much of Darwinism is not science but naturalistic philosophy masquerading as science. So an honest debate between Darwinism and Christianity is not fact versus faith but philosophy versus philosophy, worldview versus worldview.

We must be clear about what is at stake here. As long as Darwinism reigns in our schools and elite culture, the Christian worldview will be considered the madwoman in the attic — irrational and unbelievable. That’s why we can no longer allow naturalists to treat science as a sanctuary where their personal philosophy reigns free from challenge.”

Ken Ham has taken Colson’s challenge seriously, and evolutionists are scared to death by it. They know how feeble their belief system is, and the extent of their protests only betrays that weakness. Methinks they protest a bit too much.