Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Big Valley View

In a welcome occurrence, one of the founders of the Big Valley Creation Science Museum has contacted me through youtube. Mainly to say hello and find out who I am since I have the Big Valley Creation Museum Promo on my youtube site, shown below. It is so pleasant to meet people like these in and among the crowd of ignorant mockers. "Rare" doesn't do the situation justice...

He was a teacher who quit his job to help found the creation museum in Alberta, Canada. It is a bit smaller than the one in Kentucky which AiG owns, but it is packed full of evidences for creation. Feel free to watch the video for a tour...




I asked him how it happened and let him know I was interested in making a move in the future as well. His advice was appropriate and encouraging.

"...put it off and procrastinated for a couple of years while working at the high school before I finally got down on my knees to fast and pray for a couple of weeks to sort out where I was going in life. Had my answer within fifteen minutes, and felt like a bit of a bonehead for missing what appeared to be the blatantly obvious!"

However, over the years, he has become painfully aware of the depth of the problem which infests even Christians in the field.

"...Actually, I've been running a course in "Starting your own creation ministry/museum" in Akron for the past two years. But I'm thinking I'm either going to switch it to invitation only, or not run it at all. Unfortunately, I've seen so much backstabbing of creationists against other creationists, that I'm hesitant to share in a "public setting" except those I have a chance to meet and discern."

As he notes, it is not so much that biblical Christians are without means or without understanding, but that even within the hearts of Christians their are many troubles. This is not a business for early believers, but of those maturing and tempered in faith. Hopefully he will continue as an independent researcher and lecturer if not also keep trying with this class of his.

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