Ronning Centre: Creation Museum Dialogue

This dialogue with Dr. Jim Linville is free to attend and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Light refreshments will be served.  

North America is home to more than 30 Christian “Creation Museums” and creationist science centers, with five in Canada. These range in size from rooms in church basements to multi-million-dollar life size models of Noah’s Ark. Even larger ones are in the fund-raising stages. While Young Earth Creationism’s debate with secular science is well publicized, the museum and creation science phenomenon is about more than simply refuting “Darwinism”.

This presentation offers an illustrated, whirlwind tour of some these facilities and argues that behind the unified front against the secular world, the diversity of venues reveal complex symbolic spaces in which personal and cultural identities are articulated.

Dr. Linville is native Albertan and finished his BA in Religious Studies at the University of Alberta in 1993. In 1998 he received a PhD in Hebrew and Old Testament from the University of Edinburgh and since 2002 has been teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Lethbridge.