This week in Christian history: Creation Museum opens, President Nixon speaks at Billy Graham Crusade

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Sunday, May 22, 2022

Creation Museum opens – May 28, 2007

A dinosaur exhibit at the Creation Museum. | (Photo: Facebook/Creation Museum)

This week marks the anniversary of when the Creation Museum, a facility dedicated to promoting Young Earth Creationism, opened in Petersburg, Kentucky.

The group behind the project, Answers in Genesis, is a prominent Young Earth Creationist group headed by the Australian-born Christian apologist Ken Ham.

According to the Museum, approximately 4,000 people came on opening day, with the facility averaging 300,000 visitors a year by the time it neared its fifth year of operation.

“I think a lot of people will come who don't agree with us,” Ham predicted in an interview with National Public Radio back in 2007. “There are people who won't go to church, but who will go to something like this.”