BETWIXT TEXT AND NATURE, GOD AND EVOLUTION. BIBLICAL RECEPTION AND CREATIONISM AT THE CREATION MUSEUM IN CULTURAL-ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Based on a survey of academic and popular literature, a personal visit, a number of interviews and comments on an initial draft of this paper, this study seeks to understand the hermeneutics associated with the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, just outside Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. Meant neither as a critique nor as a defence of these hermeneutics, a broad description in cultural-anthropological sense is offered here of the reception of the biblical text - primarily the Genesis creation accounts reflected within this institution, as it reacts against the dominant cultural and natural-scientific environments in which the explanatory framework of evolution, in the tradition of Charles Darwin, is generally accepted.