Younger-earth creationist Carl Baugh was drawn to Glen Rose, Texas to research alleged human footprints alongside dinosaur ones at Dinosaur Valley State Park. A few of these he collected close to the park grew to become the genesis (pun meant) for his Creation Proof Museum, based in 1984 out of a double-wide cell dwelling. Baugh and his museum continues to sponsor expeditions worldwide to find different claimed proof of a young-earth creation. They even investigated claims of dwelling pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea.
The museum itself, in distinction to different creationist ones, holds a higher emphasis on “seeing is believing” quite than merely explaining hypotheses with fashions. Moreover the claimed dinosaur-era footprints, there's a trendy hammer trapped in allegedly Cretaceous rock, two trilobites crushed by an obvious sandal print, and an allegedly fossilized Cretaceous finger. Along with these parallels to the Flintstones, there may be additionally one to Jurassic Park: a “hyperbaric biosphere” chamber is meant to recreate pre-Biblical Flood situations that would develop dinosaurs.
Baugh's claims have been broadly criticized not solely by the scientific group but in addition by fellow young-earth creationists. They notice that his fossils are sometimes of unreliable provenance or outright faux, and that these which are actual could be defined by different means. As an illustration, the unique Glen Rose footprints are virtually actually remnants of algae or different dinosaur tracks.
