The Museum of Creation and Earth History is a

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promotional facility opened by the

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at its original headquarters in

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in 1992, replacing an earlier museum located in the institute's basement. It cost $50,000, and took 2 years to complete."Museum Pushes Creationism"

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, in ''

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'', Sep 20, 1992. Retrieved from

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2013-05-18. After the Institute for Creation Research moved from Santee to

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in 2008, it sold the Museum to the Life and Light Foundation, a non-profit ministry run by Tom Cantor. The exhibits claim to prove that the Earth is no older than about 10,000 years, and suggest that man and dinosaurs coexisted before

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, which also created the

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."A Museum That Lies Far, Far Off the Path of Science"

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, ''

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'', January 19, 2005. Also featured are an interpreted walk through the

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with a literal depiction of the six days in the

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, a dark room with pictures of the

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and

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s, scale models of

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and the

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, an Ice Age room, the Canyon Wall, describing how the

was formed in a matter of weeks or months, rather than the millions of years posited by most geologists, and the Hall of Scholars with pictures and biographies of scientists who believed in creationism rather than accepting

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. It also has a display about the ICR's

RATE project The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) is a Creationist apologetics institute in Dallas, Texas, that specializes in media promotion of pseudoscience, pseudoscientific creation science and interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative as a ...

, an effort, in conjunction with other young Earth creationist organizations, to find evidence of a young earth. In 2013 the Museum was denied accreditation by the San Diego Museum Council.

References

External links

The Creation & Earth History Museum website

Creation and Earth History Museum—Southern California
Museums established in 1970 Museums in San Diego County, California Creationist museums in the United States {{California-museum-stub