Once back from our L.A. babysitting gig, I drove west to pick up Karin at Cincinnati, with stops at museums and attractions along the way.
Just before I met Karin at CVG, I visited the Creation Museum down the road in Kentucky. It's very well done -- no money spared -- explaining natural evidence in a manner consistent with scripture. For example, if you have fossil evidence of dinosaurs, they must have co-existed with Adam and Eve, as depicted below:
The Grand Canyon must have been created by the Flood. Mount Saint Helens made huge changes to the landscape in minutes, so the 40-day flood could have done amazing things.
Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh has Art and Dinos for one ticket |
Andrew Carnegie funded much of the paleontology at Dinosaur National Monument |
I finally got to the Air Force Museum in Dayton. This space-sled came in second to the backpack EVA units chosen by NASA |
Just before I met Karin at CVG, I visited the Creation Museum down the road in Kentucky. It's very well done -- no money spared -- explaining natural evidence in a manner consistent with scripture. For example, if you have fossil evidence of dinosaurs, they must have co-existed with Adam and Eve, as depicted below:
The Grand Canyon must have been created by the Flood. Mount Saint Helens made huge changes to the landscape in minutes, so the 40-day flood could have done amazing things.
The flood also explains evidence for continental movement:
There's a nice free zoo, with camel rides:
But dinosaurs remain the key to the story!
Karin and I started back toward SoCal, with a stop in Kansas to see some unusual rock formations:
In Kansas, I finally saw sorghum growing. This has been a mystery for me since we were taught about it (and bauxite) in fifth grade Geography,
Sorghum is a relative to corn and they just stack it in huge piles at railheads:
We crossed over into northeast New Mexico and stayed overnight in Raton. Something lit up in dim memory and I googled to find out that it's a good place to view the iridium layer deposited worldwide by the asteroid strike 65+ million years ago:
We visited the Natural History Museum and Petroglyph site in Albuquerque:
Karin reads about the K/T extinction caused by the asteroid strike. |
We met a friendly kitty guarding ice caves near the Bandera Volcano west of Albuquerque
Nice stop at the Petrified Forest:
And we closed out the month in Holbrook, AZ on Halloween: