The Story of God

While the latest exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York explores evolution (BMJ 2005;331: 1379), several hundred miles away at the start of the US Bible belt some of those who reject Darwin's theory are building a museum of creation. So far creationists have raised $25m (£14m; €21m) towards the project, which is nearing completion in Petersburg, Kentucky, and which claims to show that the world came into being exactly as told in the book of Genesis. It would not be so worrying if the museum, which bizarrely displays mankind side by side with …