While celebrations are on-going this year to mark Charles Darwin's bicentenary, there's at least one place that won't be toasting his memory - a creationist museum in Kentucky, US.
There are tail-wagging animatronic dinosaurs, a special effects cinema, a planetarium and a petting zoo. As museums go, the Creation Museum in Petersburg is not short on attractions.
And it doesn't want for space either. Set in 49 acres of well-groomed grounds - that's 35 more than London's Natural History Museum - this is the biggest creationist museum in the United States.
Behind it all is a Christian ministry, Answers in Genesis, committed to spreading its belief that the universe was created by direct acts of God over six days, less than 10,000 years ago. The museum, which cost $27m (£17m) to build, opened two years ago.
And while millions of people the world over will spend 2009 celebrating Charles Darwin's memory - it's 200 years since he was born and 150 years since his seminal work, the Origin of Species, which set out his theory of evolution, was published - many others will side with this museum's theme: "life doesn't evolve around Darwin".
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The Creation Museum is the uncompromising vision of Australian-born evangelical Ken Ham, who aims to "expose the bankruptcy of evolutionary ideas" and "enable Christians to defend their faith".
The ministry he founded also distances itself from "intelligent design", the theory that creatures exist of such complexity they could not have evolved as a result of natural selection. To Mr Ham, that theory provides "good scientific arguments to challenge the idea life could evolve by chance" but ultimately does not question evolution or promote creation "as the bible teaches".
Answers In Genesis is not alone in rejecting evolution - creationism has its supporters in the UK. A 2006 survey for the BBC's Horizon programme, found a fifth of people polled were convinced by the creationist argument and just less than half accepted evolution as the best description for the development of life.
And Britain has its own creationist museum, in Portsmouth, Hampshire. But its size and popularity is dwarfed by that of its Kentucky counterpart. The former claims 50,000 visitors in nine years, compared with the latter's 700,000 in less than two.
But what do creationists make of the scientific evidence that claims to undermine their theories?
The most recent such finding, a "47-million-year-old fossil" of a primate, called Ida, may have given scientists a "fresh insight" into evolution - but followers of Answers In Genesis are having none of it.
President and founder Ken Ham stayed resolutely silent about the fossil, called Darwinius masillae, which scientists believe was linked to an early human ancestor.
Meanwhile, the ministry's website stated: "Because the fossil is similar to a modern lemur, it's unlikely creationists need any interpretation of the 'missing link' other than it was a small, tailed, probably tree-climbing, and now extinct primate from a kind created on Day Six of Creation Week."
There are tail-wagging animatronic dinosaurs, a special effects cinema, a planetarium and a petting zoo. As museums go, the Creation Museum in Petersburg is not short on attractions.
And it doesn't want for space either. Set in 49 acres of well-groomed grounds - that's 35 more than London's Natural History Museum - this is the biggest creationist museum in the United States.
Behind it all is a Christian ministry, Answers in Genesis, committed to spreading its belief that the universe was created by direct acts of God over six days, less than 10,000 years ago. The museum, which cost $27m (£17m) to build, opened two years ago.
And while millions of people the world over will spend 2009 celebrating Charles Darwin's memory - it's 200 years since he was born and 150 years since his seminal work, the Origin of Species, which set out his theory of evolution, was published - many others will side with this museum's theme: "life doesn't evolve around Darwin".
Why is Darwin buried with kings at Westminster Abbey? He's not a king
Robert Mailloux
The Creation Museum is the uncompromising vision of Australian-born evangelical Ken Ham, who aims to "expose the bankruptcy of evolutionary ideas" and "enable Christians to defend their faith".
The ministry he founded also distances itself from "intelligent design", the theory that creatures exist of such complexity they could not have evolved as a result of natural selection. To Mr Ham, that theory provides "good scientific arguments to challenge the idea life could evolve by chance" but ultimately does not question evolution or promote creation "as the bible teaches".
Answers In Genesis is not alone in rejecting evolution - creationism has its supporters in the UK. A 2006 survey for the BBC's Horizon programme, found a fifth of people polled were convinced by the creationist argument and just less than half accepted evolution as the best description for the development of life.
And Britain has its own creationist museum, in Portsmouth, Hampshire. But its size and popularity is dwarfed by that of its Kentucky counterpart. The former claims 50,000 visitors in nine years, compared with the latter's 700,000 in less than two.
But what do creationists make of the scientific evidence that claims to undermine their theories?
The most recent such finding, a "47-million-year-old fossil" of a primate, called Ida, may have given scientists a "fresh insight" into evolution - but followers of Answers In Genesis are having none of it.
President and founder Ken Ham stayed resolutely silent about the fossil, called Darwinius masillae, which scientists believe was linked to an early human ancestor.
Meanwhile, the ministry's website stated: "Because the fossil is similar to a modern lemur, it's unlikely creationists need any interpretation of the 'missing link' other than it was a small, tailed, probably tree-climbing, and now extinct primate from a kind created on Day Six of Creation Week."
) while at the other museum there was nothing of the sort.