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The Creation Evidence Museum, originally Creation Evidences Museum,〔("Footprints of Fantasy" ), by Kaylois Henry, ''Dallas Observer'', December 12, 1996. Retrieved August 15, 2008.〕 is a creationist museum in Glen Rose in Somervell County in central Texas, USA. Founded in 1984 by Carl Baugh for the purpose of researching and displaying exhibits that support creationism, it portrays the Earth as six thousand years old and humans coexisting with dinosaurs,〔 disputing the scientific consensus that the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old and dinosaurs became extinct 65.5 million years before human beings arose.〔(''Finding the Evolution in Medicine'' ), Cynthia Delgado, NIH Record, July 28, 2006.〕〔Larry Martz & Ann McDaniel, ''Newsweek'' CIX(26): 23-24, June 29, 1987, ISSN 0028-9604〕 ==History and projects== The Creation Evidence Museum was founded by Carl Baugh, a young earth creationist, after he came to Glen Rose in 1982 to research claims of fossilized human footprints alongside dinosaur footprints in the limestone banks of the Paluxy River, near Dinosaur Valley State Park. He claims to have excavated 475 dinosaur footprints and 86 human footprints,〔("Creation Evidence Museum, Glen Rose, Texas" ), Roadside America. Retrieved August 15, 2008.〕 which form the basis of the Creation Evidence Museum as well as other exhibits.〔("Creationism Alive and Kicking in Glen Rose" ), by Greg Beets, August 5, 2005, ''Austin Chronicle''.〕〔 Baugh, who does not have an accredited degree, remains the director and main speaker for CEM. In 2001 Baugh and Creation Evidence Museum were featured on ''The Daily Show'' where Baugh likened human history to ''The Flintstones'' and the show poked fun at his claims about the hyperbaric biosphere, pterodactyl expeditions, and dinosaurs. The Creation Evidence Museum sponsors continuing paleontological and archaeological excavations among other research projects, including a hunt for living pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea,〔〔("Adam, Eve and T. Rex" ), by Ashley Powers, August 27, 2005, ''Los Angeles Times''. Retrieved August 14, 2008.〕 and expeditions to Israel.〔("Bronstein, head of Israeli Department of Antiquities, lectures in Glen Rose" ), John Watson, ''Cleburne Times-Review'', February 05, 2006.〕 Materials from the museum have been recommended by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools,〔("The Case for Teaching The Bible" ), by David Van Biema, ''Time'' magazine, March 22, 2007.〕 but the NCBCPS curriculum has been deemed "unfit for use in public school classrooms."〔Amanda Colleen Brown, "(Losing My Religion: The Controversy over Bible Classes in Public Schools )," Baylor Law Review 59 (2007): 193-240.〕 One of the museum's projects is a "hyperbaric biosphere", a chamber which the museum hopes will reproduce the atmospheric conditions that these creationists postulate for Earth before the Great Flood, and enable them to grow dinosaurs. Baugh says that these conditions made creatures live longer, and get larger, smarter and nicer.〔 He claims that tests under these conditions have tripled the lifespan of fruit-flies, and detoxified copperhead snakes. A much larger version is under construction in the new building.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Creation Evidence Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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