In this view, the Bible is without error, clearly written and factually accurate – including when it comes to history and science. Some conservative evangelical theologians, appalled by the undermining of biblical authority, responded by creating the notion of biblical inerrancy. Michel Du Cille/The Washington Post via Getty Images Biblical inerrancyĬreationism is a central tenet of Protestant fundamentalism, an American evangelical movement that has its roots in the late 19th century just as Darwinian evolution was undermining the story of Genesis.Īround that same time, scholars were also asking substantive questions about who actually wrote the 66 books of the Bible, noting some of its apparent inconsistencies and errors and observing that some of its stories – including that of the giant flood – seemed borrowed from other cultures.
Since opening in 2007, the Creation Museum has told this story – with an abundance of dinosaur displays and life-size dioramas of the idyllic Garden of Eden – to more than 4 million visitors.įor Protestant fundamentalists, Adam and Eve – seen here in statue form at the Creation Museum – were the first humans. They, along with some animals – including, according to the Creation Museum, dinosaurs – were safely housed in the ark that God commanded Noah to build. Only righteous Noah and his family were saved. In response, God sent a global flood that drowned everyone on the planet the Creation Museum says the dead numbered in the billions. Eve gave birth to two sons, Cain and Abel, and, according to the Creation Museum, to a daughter who later became Cain’s wife.Īccording to Genesis, humans eventually became wicked and violent. When they disobeyed God and ate fruit from the tree of knowledge, they were banished from the Garden of Eden and became mortal.Īdam and Eve did better on their second assignment, though. The first four chapters of the book of Genesis tell the story of Adam and Eve, who were created on the sixth day and given two jobs: to obey God and populate the Earth.
The Creation Museum, about which we wrote a book in 2016, promotes a very specific version of this belief, which holds that God made the universe in six 24-hour days about 6,000 years ago.
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