If you are looking for a destination vacation, please cross of the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky off your list. The whole idea of a museum concocted to demonstrate the principles of Creation "Science", causes one to think hard about the energy wasted in trying to prove a scientific explanation for belief. That belief supports sermons, books and now this "museum" that purports to show humans right along side of fossils of dinosaurs that perished long before any of the humanoids, including their relatives the chimpanzees, monkeys and gorillas appeared on earth. Wiping the earth clean of life periodically is included in the explanations on cards before exhibits. There is, of course, the flood of Noah and then the fire and then perhaps the admission that evidence exists of visits by extra-terrestrial nomads called asteroids and pieces of planets that exploded for unknown reasons somewhere in this made-up history.
What this "museum" does is confuses rather than explain clearly the history of our world. The explanation is worked through by belief and stories passed down through ancient religious texts. Rather than explanations based on evidence, dogma is perpetuated by authoritarian belief imposed on children in schools which are not public but supported by one religious faction or another.
It is amazing to me that the conflict between information which uniformly appears when discoveries of ancient bones appear and religious beliefs are not recognized that either one of the two is wrong. BF and AF are the confusing terms now in use in museums such as the one in Kentucky. If it happened before Noah's flood, that is one thing, explained by religious texts. If it happened after Noah's flood then it becomes history.
Belief is a strange and wonderful thing. People believe in the strangest things and base truth on them - disregarding scientific evidence. So, they create their own evidence and put it forth as truth and despite discrepancies and contradictions, continue to believe what they have been told. What they have produced is, in fact, a world inside of the real sensory world our public schools teach and replace it with belief -"because it says so in the Bible."
As a headline in the article in today's NY Times reports, "Paleontology and Creationism Meet but don't mesh." It is frightening to teachers, such as myself, to be confronted by a graduate student, no less, who questioned facts and proceeded to lecture the class on what the Bible says. Science and the Bible tell different stories but they should not be confused but separated into their own worlds.