Creation museum's "Adam" owns naughty Web site

The man picked to play Adam by a museum based on the Bible's version of Earth's history led quite a different life outside the Garden of Eden, flaunting his sexual exploits online and modeling for a line of clothing with an explicit mascot.

Registration records show that Eric Linden, who portrays Adam taking his first breath in a film at the newly opened Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., owns a graphic Web site called Bedroom Acrobat. He has been pictured there, smiling alongside a drag queen, in a T-shirt brandishing the site's sexually suggestive logo.

Linden, a graphic designer, model, and actor who grew up in Columbus, Ohio, also sells clothing for SFX International, whose initials appear on clothing to spell "SEX" from afar and serve as an abbreviation for its mascot, who promotes "free love," "pleasure," and "thrillz."

The museum's operators, informed Thursday by the Associated Press of Linden's online appearances, acted swiftly to suspend airing of the 40-second video in which he appeared.

Even before the disclosure, the museum endured its share of controversy, including protesters demonstrating outside when it first opened its doors late last month and critics arguing that exhibits putting dinosaurs and humans in the same time period only serve to confuse children and are scientifically unfounded.

The clip in which Linden appears is one of 55 featured on tours of the museum, which tells the Bible's version of Earth's history that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago.

"We are currently investigating the veracity of these serious claims of his participation in projects that don't align with the biblical standards and moral code upon which the ministry was founded," Answers for Genesis spokesman Mark Looy said in an e-mail statement.

Linden told the AP that he is no longer affiliated with the site. He described it as "from my past."

"It's a different story when you grow up a little bit," said Linden, 27. "I'm a Web designer and I was trying to think to the future and capitalize on different domain names, just trying to be clever. I handed the domain name off to somebody, so I really don't know what's going on with it."

Ownership records available through the NetworkSolutions database show Linden registered the site 18 months ago. (Julie Carr Smyth, AP)