Interview: Creation Museum Founder on Evolution Clash
Saturday, May. 26, 2007 Posted: 08:08:48 PM PDT
What we do at our museum, by the way, is that we actually get both sides in one sense, because we teach what evolutionists teach. But we teach [visitors] how to correctly think about science whereas evolutionists only teach one side and teach them incorrectly about science. They are the ones leading children astray, not us.
We do what the Bible does. The Bible does not hide comparisons; it teaches both. It teaches you why; it teaches you the consequences of evil; it teaches you the consequences of all decisions. That’s what we teach. We teach about evolution, but they (evolutionists) sure hide from children evidence for creationism.
CP: A big part of your ministry, Answers in Genesis, is to prove the literal Bible’s view of creation as being more valid than the theory of evolution.
Ham: I would put it differently. We’re not trying to and you can’t ultimately prove anything relating to the past. What we’re saying is, really, a lot of the universe doesn’t make sense unless there’s a God anyway, because where did the laws of logic come from that we all agree upon? Why do we believe in reality and laws that do not change except that there’s a God that created these laws and the universe is set by them?
What we’re saying is that if the Bible claims to be the revealed word of God – and it is - then the Bible’s history has to be true. Actually, all of Christian doctrine and the gospel are based off the history in Genesis. Genesis 1-11, the history concerning the fall of man, concerning the entrance of sin on earth, concerning the Tower of Babel, all of this is foundational to the rest of the Bible.
The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there’s an absolute authority and if God’s the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we’re just animals and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be. If we’re just animals, then what’s abortion? It’s just killing an animal, so what does it matter?
What we’re saying to people is that the Genesis history is true; it does explain the world, and we can use scientific evidence from the present, such as genetics, geology, biology, astronomy, and so on, to confirm the Bible’s historicity. You can’t openly prove things in relationship to the past, but you sure can confirm it.
So if the Bible says that there is a global flood, we would look at the fossil record and say that the fossil records that reflect a catastrophe fit with the flood. The Bible says that God made kinds of animals to reproduce after their own kind, so the more you look at animals and plants and put them in groups, great variation within a kind, there is a genetic pool of information for each kind that enables great diversity within a kind. You can get many species of dogs, but they are all one gene pool; they’re all one kind. So the evidence directly supports that.
There is no evidence where you see information added into the gene pool to get something that wasn’t there to change one kind into another. That’s what you don’t see.
