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Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 18:41:23 EST
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This item appeared in the 12/31/83 edition of The Easton Express in
Easton, Pa. with the headline, CREATIONISTS' MUSEUM TO COPY NOAH'S ARK

GLEN ROSE, Texas (AP) - A 3.5$ million international creationist museum
modeled after Noah's Ark will be built near the site where a group claims
to have found evidence that knocks down the theory of evolution.

Plans for the museum were announced Thursday during a meeting of the
Bible Science Association and members of the group also showed fossilized
human bones that they said prove evolution is a hoax.

Organizer Carl E. Baugh said the museum would be the exact size of the ark
described in the Bible as carrying Noah, his family and animals to safety
during the great flood.

"It will be 450 feet long, 45 feet high and 75 feet wide," said Baugh, a
Missouri minister who has been active in creationist groups.

Plans call for the museum to be built near the Paluxy river, west of
Glen Rose, where numerous fossilized dinosaur tracks have been found.

Baugh gained attention last year when he claimed he found human footprints
in the same limestone as dinosaur tracks at Glen Rose.

Although his findings were rejected by many scientists, Baugh said
finding the human and dinosaur prints in the same limestone stratum
proved the evolutionary theories are wrong. Scientists say dinosaurs
had been extinct for 70 million years before the appearance of man.