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TechnoratiDespite the controversies, the museum has been relatively successful, having drawn more than 700,000 guests since its opening. It has also been continually expanding, with several new exhibits and events planned for this year, including an “ape-man” exhibit to bring attention to the fallacies of Darwinian evolution.
The success is not surprising as 44 percent of U.S. adults would qualify as Young Earth creationists, agreeing to the statement that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years," according to a 2008 Gallup poll.
And of the 50 percent who agreed with the statement "human beings developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life," 55 percent held a view of "naturalistic evolution," in which no God took part in the evolutionary process, while 40 percent believe that God guided the process over millions of years.
On average, around 900 people visited the museum each day - a 20 percent drop from the year before.
According to Inside Science News Service, 304 people from the SSA showed up Saturday at the Creation Museum as part of the group’s 9th Annual National Conference, though the group had expected around 260.
Though the group was large, Myers insisted Saturday that all of the atheists were “well behaved and civil,” that the only behavior the museum staff could possibly have complained about their “quiet criticism,” and that the only bad behavior was by people like Looy and the “noticeably edgy security guards, who we could tell were looking for an excuse to throw all the people laughing at their joke of a ‘museum’ out.”
After the incident, the noted atheist and biology professor at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) said Looy "ironically" asked to take a picture with him.
“I let him, of course, but I expect they'll also use it to let their security know who I am, in case I should make future invasions,” he concluded.
But Myers said a future visit was “not likely.”
“I think I got enough,” he stated.
