In 2007 the Institute for Creation Research moved from Santee, California to Dallas, Texas. The Dallas metropolitan area has the highest percentage of evangelicals of any major metropolitan area in America. As in Santee, ICR planned a museum to accompany their headquarters. On September 2, 2019, the Discovery Center opened. The museum features exhibits on the founders of science, the Read more...
I was in town for a political convention and exploring the downtown and snuck in the library. Cleveland Public Library is most proud of their antique chess set collection, but they also have artifacts they acquired a century ago from digs in the Middle East. Head up to the third floor to the Special Collections room and past the chess Read more...
Henry Madison Morris (October 6, 1918 – February 25, 2006) was an American young Earth creationist, Christian apologist, and engineer. He was one of the founders of the Creation Research Society and the Institute for Creation Research. He is considered by many to be “the father of modern creation science.”[2] He is widely known for coauthoring The Genesis Flood with John C. Whitcomb in 1961.[2][3][4] As Morris believed in the biblical literalism and inerrancy, he opposed Read more...
Modern creationism, the idea that God created the world in six literal days approximately 6,000 years ago, and following that, a worldwide flood occurred, was championed by George McCready Price, a Seventh Day Adventist, starting in 1902. Williams Jennings Bryan unsuccessfully recruited him as a witness for the Scopes Trial. The “flood geology” movement grew to include conservative Lutherans, and Read more...
Lloyd and Doris Anderson started the museum that is now known as the Mount St. Helens Creation Center to share the impact of the volcano that transformed Washington state. On March 15th, 1980, a series of earthquakes began, followed by avalanches, fractures, and ash clouds. Then, it appeared to stop on May 16th, and the area residents started demanding to Read more...
