Answers in Genesis has led the way with its brand new, soon
to be opened, multimillion dollar extravaganza in Kentucky, called the "Creation
Museum." This delightful diversion into fantasy could be but the first in a
major undertaking to expand the area into a world class amusement theme park
complex in rural Kentucky. Permit me propose that this pooling of the
preposterous be known collectively as "OmniMyth of Kentucky."
This suggested grouping of sites, featuring magical
explanations for everything, is an idea whose time has come. OmniMyth could
provide genuine creative comedy relief in a world all too weary with the mess
created by failed attempts to solve real problems with make believe. The theme
parks could also make their owners a decent profit.
The possible recreational facilities that could be
constructed are limited only by the creative imagination of potential designers.
The Creation Museum, after all, posits the proposition, which no educated person
would hold as true, that the Earth is only a few thousand years old and that it
and all life on it were created by magic. The lushly exhibited creationist
fantasy rejects, as its central premise, the fact that humans developed from
less complex life forms in the process of change over time known as evolution.
Instead, the visitor is treated to the myth, presented as true, that humans were
magically made from dirt. One can be transported to a time before computers,
space stations, and wireless telephones when people wrote on rocks, set broken
bones without x-rays, and answered tough questions, like where did people come
from, by saying a god did it.
Similar delightful ideas could be represented by similar
theme parks grouped in OmniMyth of Kentucky, making the attraction truly
international in scope. The diversity of the project might contribute to a
lessening of tensions among the world's peoples, who could come to visit and to
see and to laugh at our commonality of recognition that we all share primitive
pasts in which our ancestors created make believe stories to explain things not
understood. Ancient Greek stories of gods living on a mountain and hurling
thunderbolts of lightening. Egyptian stories of preparing the dead for an
afterlife by removing the brain. Indian stories of a god who was crucified and
arose from the dead. Eskimo stories of a raven who made the sun, moon, stars,
the earth, people, and animals.
OmniMyth of Kentucky can put Disney to shame. Thanks to
Answers in Genesis, without which this project would not have been birthed, for
such creative leadership in education.
Here is a possible advertisement:
"Antidotes to thought. Magical reasons for everything. Fantasy is made real and
Myths become true. Pretend it is so and it will be so. See models of humans and
dinosaurs together and you can believe they lived at the same time. See a model
of a god pulling the sun across the sky in a chariot and you can believe it is
true. Forget reality for a few hours at OmniMyth of Kentucky where Reality is
Fantasy and Fantasy is Reality."
Edwin Kagin
January 6, 2005