Creation Museum & Big Bone Lick

Kentucky - September 2007

Another business trip that spanned a weekend . . . This time in northern Kentucky, just south of Cincinatti. They were suffering from a drought. It hadn't rained in nearly 2 months.



In May, the Creation Museum in Petersburg opened for business. Its primary goal is to teach the Bible's account of earth's history as absolutely true and factual. They had other points to make, but this was the main one.

It was a big place.


No need for fig leaves.



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I never heard it in school either. The universe is only 6000 years old, and all the fossils and huge canyons were made by the Great Flood 4300 years ago.

They had a nice botanical garden there, but the drought had wasted a lot of it. These waterlilies were struggling.


Back in the parking lot, expressions of faith were much more straight-forward.





Less than a half hour away is Big Bone Lick State Park . . . offering hellbound non-believers an alternate view of natural history, and some kick-ass souvenirs. (The Creation Museum had NO shot-glasses.)


About 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice-age, mastadons, woolly mammoths, giant ground sloths, etc. came here to lick salt. Big mammals crave it in summer. Some got stuck in the bogs and mud, and their big bones were later found here, preserved very nicely in the salty ground.

You can see the salt in some of the streams.


They had no animatronic dinosaurs, like at the musuem. They stuck a few fake critters in the mud to make their point.



The park also has a little lake. I had a nice hike around it. Thanks to the drought, there were few mosquitos.



This guy posed nicely.


The beavers had downed a lot of trees. They were still at it.



I didn't see their dam. Maybe the drought drained it.



In a drying riverbed, these mud frogs were contributing little bones to Big Bone Park.


A little girl was nice to pose one for me.


Two days before I left, it finally rained. The grass turned green again. Everyone sighed a breath of relief.

(Kentucky - September 2007)