Museum Works on More Than Faith

Re “A Museum That Lies Far, Far Off the Path of Science,” Commentary, Jan. 19: Patt Morrison described the Museum of Creation and Earth History as having low-tech exhibits and plastic butterflies. The museum is low-tech at the moment. Updating a museum is an ongoing process.

However, it has collections of art, photos, fossils, rocks, shells, skulls, ancient artifacts (actual and replicas) and a huge collection of butterflies and moths (more than 2,000). How she missed the whole wall that displays hundreds of these beautiful specimens is a mystery.

Morrison opens her article by stating that she overheard a museum visitor saying that there were pieces of Noah’s Ark hidden in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. Any museum has visitors with differing opinions. This person’s opinion is not the position of the Institute for Creation Research, which supports the museum.

The institute also supports a graduate school for master’s degrees in astro-geophysics, biology, geology and science education. Its largest current research project concerns radioisotopes and the age of the Earth, an expensive, eight-year project that has given outstanding results supporting a young age for the Earth.

So how is any of this “far, far off the path of science,” as the Morrison headline declared?

Cynthia Carlson

Curator, Institute for Creation Research, Santee