What’s Your Starting Point: God’s Word or Man’s Word?

The Creation Museum’s main exhibit area begins with the Starting Points room. This area is foundational to the rest of the museum as it invites guests to consider the importance of presuppositions and worldview, establishes the difference between observational and historical science, and compares the naturalistic evolutionary worldview with the biblical creation worldview.

One would expect an honest study of the same stars, fossils, animals, cells, etc., to yield compatible conclusions for both, and that is generally true in the realm of observational science (i.e., the study, testing, and verification of things and ideas that can be directly observed, such as chemical composition, medicinal effects, gene sequencing, etc.).

But in the realm of historical science, evolutionists and creationists often come to wildly different conclusions. This isn’t because of differing evidence but because historical science requires interpreting evidence from the past that cannot be directly observed in the present (e.g., the formation of the earth, how life came to be, or why very different creatures share certain features). Such interpretation is influenced by their presuppositions. The evolutionist, assuming evolution is true, sees everything through an evolutionary lens. In contrast, the biblical creationist sees confirmation of God’s Word in the natural world.

Does that leave us at an impasse? Not really. While there is merit in evaluating what makes the best sense of the evidence we have, there’s a more important factor: the testimony of a reliable eyewitness, which we have in Scripture.

Learn more on your next visit to the Creation Museum!