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If it were to happen anywhere in Canada, I'd have guessed Alberta...

$300,000 Alberta museum has anti-evolution stance

BIG VALLEY, ALTA. (Jun 2, 2007)

Creationism and evolution will square off again when Canada's first permanent creation museum opens in June. The Big Valley Creation Science Museum is filled with displays of fossils and model DNA strands supporting a literal interpretation of the Bible, and opposing evolution.

"When you look at it, you can see which faith fits the facts, because both sides are faiths,'' said museum owner Harry Nibourg, who said he grew interested in creationism after watching videos and reading books on the subject.

The museum will have cost him about $300,000 by the time it opens.

"Without having been there and without seeing it, I don't want to criticize,'' said Andrew Newman, a paleontologist and acting director at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller.

"I'm not sure that there is as much focus on science as there is on theology in this museum.''

Nibourg insists that his museum is based more on science than theology and says there are more scientific theories than Bible references in the displays. He said he has offered to debate many scientists, but most of them have refused.

"They've got the right to be wrong,'' he said. "They don't have a leg to stand on and they're hoping to evolve one.''

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