Creation Evidence Museum

Young-earth creationist Carl Baugh was drawn to Glen Rose, Texas to investigate alleged human footprints alongside dinosaur ones at Dinosaur Valley State Park. Some of those he collected near the park became the genesis (pun intended) for his Creation Evidence Museum, founded in 1984 out of a double-wide mobile home. Baugh and his museum continues to sponsor expeditions worldwide to discover other claimed evidence of a young-earth creation. They even investigated claims of living pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea.

The museum itself, in contrast to other creationist ones, holds a greater emphasis on "seeing is believing" rather than merely explaining hypotheses with models. Besides the claimed dinosaur-era footprints, there is a modern hammer trapped in allegedly Cretaceous rock, two trilobites crushed by an apparent sandal print, and an allegedly fossilized Cretaceous finger. In addition to these parallels to the Flintstones, there is also one to Jurassic Park: a "hyperbaric biosphere" chamber is supposed to recreate pre-Biblical Flood conditions that could grow dinosaurs.

Baugh's claims have been widely criticized not only by the scientific community but also by fellow young-earth creationists. They note that his fossils are often of unreliable provenance or outright fake, and that those that are real can be explained by other means. For instance, the original Glen Rose footprints are almost certainly remnants of algae or other dinosaur tracks.