Creation Museum Promotes the Bible over Evolution

NPR | By Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Published May 28, 2007 at 2:00 PM MDT

The $27 million Creation Museum opened its doors in northern Kentucky on Monday. Hundreds of people came to the opening of the museum, which promotes the Biblical story of creation over evolutionary science.

Protesters outside the museum criticized it for trying to replace science with fiction.

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Barbara Bradley Hagerty is the religion correspondent for NPR, reporting on the intersection of faith and politics, law, science and culture. Her New York Times best-selling book, "Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality," was published by Riverhead/Penguin Group in May 2009. Among others, Barb has received the American Women in Radio and Television Award, the Headliners Award and the Religion Newswriters Association Award for radio reporting.

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Creation Museum Promotes the Bible over Evolution

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