DAWSON, W. Va. – On our way from Michigan to West Virginia last week, we encamped for a few days in the southwest corner of Ohio, where we trekked across the Ohio River for day trips to the Creation Museum and the nearby Ark Encounter in neighboring Kentucky.
Both attractions are well done and engaging to the mind and the heart. On Thursday, we toured the exhibits and the grounds at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. The museum is a serious effort to explain the world as we see it today in light of the creation story in the Bible. The museum was busy but not overcrowded on the day we visited. Among the exhibits that impressed us most were those on life in the womb, and on the Bible’s clear message against racism. We missed the presentation on snakes, but as you can see, I did get to hang out with one of the exhibits, a live ball python! And as a wonderful bonus, while we were wandering through the surrounding gardens, we crossed paths with Dale and Linda McLane, a dear couple we knew from our time at Grace PCA in Colorado Springs.
On Friday we drove a few miles further into Kentucky to see the Ark Encounter in Williamstown. The main attraction is a life-sized replica of Noah’s Ark, as described in Genesis 6. More than 500 feet long, it’s an awesome sight to behold! Inside the ark’s three decks, we viewed more exhibits, as well as the human and animal living quarters as the designers of the modern ark thought they might have looked in Noah’s time. Like the Creation Museum (both projects of the Answers in Genesis organization), the Ark Encounter seeks to explain the global flood and how life on earth could have emerged from the ark in its aftermath thousands of years ago. Whatever your views on the subject, both the museum and ark will give you plenty to think about.
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We arrived yesterday at a campground in south central West Virginia, somewhere between Beckley and Lewisburg off Interstate 64. Our plan this week is to spend a day in the nation’s newest national park, the New River Gorge. Then we’ll head north to the RV dealership near Weston that sold us the Hideout for a few repairs, including the left front skirting that we lost in California back in April. At the end of the week we’ll be heading back to Northern Virginia for a few days to see friends and attend our home church next Sunday.
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