Creation Museum

I know it's been a couple of days since we went, but I'm finally putting up my post about going to the Creation Museum with the Vision of Hope crew. Hailey went with me, and she was amazingly obedient the whole day. I was so impressed with her growth as a young women.

The Creation Museum has had a special place for the members of our church for quite a while. Several of our young people's groups travelled there to help construct it. Our church supports it. Ken Ham comes to teach at our church from time to time. So the Creation Museum has come up time and time again. We've heard over and over how wonderful it is and how awesome and amazing.

But seeing it in real life was more than I could have ever imagined! It's taken me a couple of days to really process it enough to really talk about it, because it was so much more than I could really take in.

At church and in counseling we FIGHT to get people to believe in the authority and sufficiency of Scripture in all of life. Well, the Creation Museum was the first time I've seen someone do that pictorially in 3D. It was so moving, so amazing that I left with a greater capacity to worship God because of it. I felt like for the first time, someone took all of what I've been learning these last 10 years and made a museum about it.

You can bet for sure that everyone who comes to Indiana to visit us in the next years is going to get the "Do you want to go the Creation Museum with us?" question. You won't want to miss it!

Here's Hailey in the beginning of the walk through History checking out some life size figures completing a Dinosaur Archeology Dig.

Hailey's favorite part of the trip was getting to hang out with all of her favorite "Vision of Hope Girls." They love Hailey and Shelby.

One of the awesome parts of the Museum was how professional it was. All the displays were amazing. Along with the Museum there is an amazingly beautiful botanical gardens there as well. There was a pretty cool suspension bridge that Hailey loved.

In the Botanical Garden section there were three beautiful waterfalls and water features. Here is Tori, one of the VOH staff, showing Hailey something in the waterfalls.

Hailey hanging with the VOH girls at the head of the waterfall.

Attached to the botanical garden area was a petting zoo with some unique critters showcasing how God made everything after its kind and able to expand with a great degree of change possible within its genetic code. There was a zonkey (zebra / donkey hybrid) and zorse (zebra / horse hybrid). It was interesting.

One of the most amazing pieces of the walk through history was the amazing, amazing tree of life in the garden of eden. It took my breath away to look at it. It was very, very cool!

Here's an example of the amazing displays all throughout the walk through history. This is one of the displays of Adam and Eve after God united them, enjoying their relationship in the Garden of Eden in perfection. It was amazing. They were wax / siliconish life size figures in a real water pond with amazing decor.

I don't know if these were real dinosaur bones or not. I would assume not, but who knows? I'm not all that crazy about dinosaurs in general but I learned a lot about them, and it was all about how God created them after their kind.

Hailey even got to ride on this little bugger!

Here are a couple of shots of the amazing gardens from the deck at the Museum.

We can hardly wait to go back, to take Brian and one day (when she's a little older) Shelby. Meanwhile, we can't wait for all of you to come visit us so we can take you too! Hailey kept saying over and over how much fun it would be to bring Sunni.