March & April 2010
Good News from the Wrangells
High winds, dust, snow. Tough terrain were overcome in survey
Each January since 2008 Bonnie and I have traveled to the Ft. Worth, Texas area to attend the annual Pastors Conference at Eagle Mountain, ministry headquarters for Kenneth Copeland Ministries. This year we were joined by Steve and Tonia Alexander, who have a cabin on the Lakina River near Long Lake and who pastor Word of Faith Assembly in Wasilla, as well as Keith and Nola Kurber, who pastor Abundant Life Church, also in Wasilla. We all stayed at a B&B in a rural area not far from Eagle Mountain, and had a wonderful time together.
One of the things Bonnie and I have wanted to do but have been unable in prior years is to visit the Creation Evidence Museum, which is only a few hour trip by automobile from Ft. Worth. This year we were able to make the trip to Glen Rose, Texas, located in what is called “dinosaur valley,” home of the Museum.
The rural road winding its way to the museum, past yard signs reading “fossils for sale” was the first hint that this may not be one of those multi-million dollar chrome-and-glass affairs we had heard about. When we arrived, we learned the museum is indeed funded solely by donations and a modest $2 per person entry fee. The building is actually quite large and a second story balcony appears to be ready for future expansion.
The museum’s Founder and Director, Dr. Carl Baugh, originally came to Glen Rose, Texas, to critically examine claims of human and dinosaur co-habitation. He conducted extensive excavations along the Paluxy River. These original excavations yielded human footprints among dinosaur footprints. He then realized that a museum needed to be established in order to appropriately display this evidence, along with sustained excavations and other areas of scientific research for creation.
One of the featured exhibits is known as the Alvis Delk Cretaceous Footprint. This fossil of dense Glen Rose limestone consists of a Dinosaur footprint (Acrocanthosaurus) and an eleven-inch human footprint intruded by the dinosaur print.
In early July, 2000, Alvis Delk, assisted by James Bishop (both of Stephenville, Texas), was working in the Cretaceous limestone on the McFall property at the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas, and discovered a pristine human footprint intruded by a dinosaur footprint. The eleven-inch human footprint matches seven other such footprints of the same dimensions in the “Sir George Series,” named in honor of His Excellency Governor General Ratu Sir George Cacobau of Fiji.
The fossil was transported to a professional laboratory where 800 X-rays were performed in a CT Scan procedure. Laboratory technicians verified compression and distribution features clearly seen in both prints, human and dinosaur. This removes any possibility that the prints were carved or altered.
Although Bonnie and I saw this and other exhibits, it wasn’t until we returned home that we appreciated the importance of what we had seen.
Talking with a good friend who is a geologist, he told me that proof of dinosaurs and humans existing at the same time throws a huge obstacle in the path of the Darwinian theory of evolution.
I suppose every school kid knows this now, but apparently evolution teaches that dinosaurs were long gone millions of years before men “evolved.”
The museum is also the only site on earth where all Old Testament books in scroll form are at one location. These scrolls, of course, are not the originals as written by the prophets. However, the Jewish scribes consider each hand-written scroll to be an “original” correct copy of the Scriptures. Some of the scrolls on display are over 700 years old. Seeing an actual scroll of the book of Isaiah helped me to better visualize the passage found in the Bible in Luke chapter 4:
He came to Nazareth where he had been reared. As he always did on the Sabbath, he went to the meeting place. When he stood up to read, he was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written, God's Spirit is on me; he's chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free, to announce, “This is God's year to act!” He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the assistant, and sat down. Every eye in the place was on him, intent. Then he started in, “You’ve just heard Scripture make history. It came true just now in this place.” (Luke 4:16-21 Message)
The riverbed where many of the displays at the museum originated is now home to the Dinosaur Valley State Park, a scenic park set astride the Paluxy River and located just northwest of Glen Rose. Dinosaur Valley State Park is said to contain some of the best preserved dinosaur tracks in the world. There are two fiberglass models; a 70-foot Apatosaurus and a 45-foot Tyrannosaurus Rex. They were built, under commission of the Sinclair Oil Company, New York World's Fair Dinosaur Exhibit of 1964-1965.
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