Institute for Creation Research

Today, we went to the Institute for Creation Research. It’s a place that teaches how science confirms the Bible rather than contradicts it. It also has a planetarium, which is where we started. We watched a show on the creation of the Earth and a show about deep space (that was my wife’s choice). The two of us enjoyed it, but Troy was bored. He was antsy the entire time, flopping all over his chair and then ultimately lying across my lap.

After that, we went into the hall of science, which had paintings of famous Christian scientists, like Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Michael Faraday, Robert Boyle, Johannes Kepler, and Lord Kelvin. But the coolest part was when the paintings started moving and then talking. They shared how science doesn’t disprove God but instead helps us understand the world that created it. They did this by having a conversation with each other across the room, turning to look at whichever painting was talking at the time. It was so cool that we watched it twice.

After that, we wound our way through the exhibit. Troy loved how they included dinosaurs in early Christian history, like in the Garden of Eden or on Noah’s ark. Noah’s ark was cool. They had a scaled down model, and then they had a life-sized recreation of a single room on the ark that you could walk through. One of the pens had Velociraptors across from a pen of lions. Their supposition was that God sent Noah baby animals, including dinosaurs, which is how they accommodated so many animals in a small space. Then, the animals grew and matured before mating.

Finally, we went through an exhibit that showed how science supports famous Biblical stories, like evidence for the Flood or the Tower of Babel. And finally we ended by walking through a diorama of the life of Christ. All in all, it was a great way to spend the afternoon.