Creation Museum

this past weekend, my confirmation class went to the creation museum just outside of cincinnatti. this museum is dedicated to proving that the world was created in seven days - just as the bible said it was. in short, evolution is bunk.

its always fun to watch middle schoolers encounter new and interesting environments. this one was no exception. they reacted with scorn to the claim that families would stay together if everyone read the bible together by the fire after dinner. they scewed their bodies before the exhibits of adam and eve to see if they were atanomically correct.

... and afterwards, they tried to assimilate what they believed about evolution and their beloved stories of the creation from a child. one boy believed unfailingly that evolution was how the world was created, but was certain that adam and eve must've been actually existed in a perfect garden. when i asked them how they could both be true, he thought for a second and said, "god years... it's kind of like dog years... years for dogs and years for us are different... so days for us and days for god are different too. it happened like the bible said... only it took much longer in people years."

i don't exactly agree with this young man's statement, but my heart absolutely exploded with joy that this 14-year-old wanted desperately to use his brain (from science class) to believe in god as well as his heart (with his attachment to the genesis creation stories). i loved the ideology of young people that science and faith don't have to be at odds... and their absolute insistance that science and faith aren't at odds.

cool beans.