Creation Evidence Museum: New Interactive Children's Lab
On your next visit to the Creation Evidence Museum in beautiful Glen Rose, you will notice some exciting new additions to their already amazing collection of artifacts. In the coming issues of Texas Life Magazine, we will highlight these new additions and hope that each of you will take the time to schedule a trip to experience everything they have to offer.
One of the newest editions to the museum is the Interactive Childrens Lab. This lab is more than just a juvenile showcase. It has artifacts that are of immediate interest to both children and their parents. Each artifact has a distinctive story behind it and a specific point to illustrate God’s creation. To demonstrate the interactivity profile of the lab, one of the artifacts is a 3-D printed model of the most beautiful castle in the world, the Neuschwanstein castle located in Bavaria. The purpose of this 3-D model is to illustrate the intricated details of what makes the castle function. The children are invited, under museum staff supervision, to disassemble, and then reassemble the castle. While completing this they are then invited to move directly next to the next artifact, a large, 3-D model of a human living cell. Instructors then point out the extreme superiority of a living cell compared to the parts of the castle. Each cell in our human bodies is a castle of itself, a castle of extreme value and importance. This is a beautiful example to show the child how God made them with extreme value.
A life size mural representation of the three-toed Cretaceous dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus welcomes you as you enter the lab. The tracks of this dinosaur dominate the Paluxy River valley. On the mural is also a juvenile representation of one of the largest dinosaurs in the world, the Sauroposeidon proteles. The center of the mural offers a glimpse of what the creation model of earth looked like under pre-flood conditions when dinosaurs roamed the planet. Along the bottom are photos of children participating in the museum’s annual excavation along the banks of the beautiful Paluxy.
An adjacent wall offers a representation of a life-sized trunk of a Ginkgo tree. This is because Ginkgo leaves have been discovered among fossilized dinosaur bones excavated in numerous areas. This opens the door for open discussions on dinosaurs and their habitats.
Mounted high on an adjacent wall is a trail of replicated Pterosaur footprints. These tracks were discovered by the Creation Evidence Museum excavation team along the banks of the Paluxy. The discovery of these tracks justified the purchase of a full-scale Pteranodon replica with a 24-foot wingspan suspended high over the center of the museum exhibits.
Of special note are the life-scale replicas of dinosaur egg nests. As kids are instructed on the type of dinosaur nestled over some of the eggs, a unique feature is pointed out. As the eggs were laid in a circle, mud and water were rising above them. Its depth is clearly shown in the egg nest. The mother dinosaur was laying her eggs during a flood.
The kids are finally invited to hold a life-size replica of a baby Acrocanthosaurus hatchling. The fully developed hatchling dinosaur was wiggling out of its eggshell when he too was caught in the same flood.
We hope that each of you will please take the drive to Glen Rose and spend some time at the Creation Evidence Museum. Dr. Carl Baugh and his team have spent a lifetime researching and discovering the showcase of artifacts housed inside. Dr. Baugh is the Founder and Director of the Creation Evidence Museum of Texas in Glen Rose. He is the scientific research director of the world's first hyperbaric biosphere, simulating Earth's atmospheric conditions before the world-wide flood of Noah's day. He is the discoverer and excavation director of sixteen dinosaurs, including Acrocanthosaurus in Texas and Diplodocus in Colorado.
We at Texas Life Publications and Creation Evidence Museum would like to say a special word about our adorable model for the photographs of the issue. His name is Karter McKinney and is from Stephenville. Karter is such an amazing child with a heart larger than Texas. Karter recently experienced a loss no child or parent should ever have to endure, the tragic loss of his older brother Jayden. Jayden went to be with the Lord after a tragic UTV accident earlier this year. Jayden was 15 years old and blessed each and every person, young and old, he ever met. Please notice in another article of this issue a tribute to Karter’s big brother and best friend Jayden, with information to an amazing scholarship fund set up in his memory by his family. We ask that each of you please keep The McKinney’s and especially younger brother Karter in your prayers.
