Welcome to the Museum!
Our Museum has Moved!
By John Feakes
In case you didn't know, our "Christian Evidences Museum" (for lack of a better name) has been housed in my basement rec-room for the past several years [up until summer '07]. During that time we've hosted many tours including homeschoolers, youth groups, Bible study groups, and families interested in seeing some of the evidence for themselves.
My family and I have had a lot of fun sharing with folks what we believe to be absolutely astounding verification of the Bible's historic claims, particularly its claims regarding special creation in the relatively recent past ( < 10,000 years ago ) and a global deluge some 4,500 years ago. Over the years we've continued to acquire fascinating artifacts and fossils, and construct displays. The trouble of course, is that basement rec-rooms don't normally grow in response to an increase in the stuff they contain (guess they haven't evolved that ability yet!). In other words, it's getting a little tight around here!
Here's where the Oxford Bible Church comes in. This body of believers is absolutely amazing. These guys are real Christians, and Oxford is a genuine New Testament Church. Since my family started attending services there over a year ago this body of believers has had its arms open wide for us. At last we are a part of a sincere church family whose focus is entirely on Christ almighty and his precious word.
Several months ago we consulted the elders of the church about our plans to start a kids' club and were given every blessing. When I asked about putting our artifacts on display in the church building I couldn't believe the response. Immediately the elders recognized the importance of our ministry and a portion of the building was set aside for our museum.
The kids' club we've dubbed "The Dinosaur Discovery Zone" and will meet every Thursday from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. Along with the singing, games and crafts, there will be a creation science lesson along with a spiritual message. Our intent is to let the kids know what the Bible says, and to give them plenty of good reasons to believe it.
The Oxford Bible Church is located at 621 Oxford St. For more information please call John or Linde Feakes at (204) 667-6548 (Cell: 299-7883) or e-mail
We're making news! The above article ran in the Winnipeg Sun, July 6, 2003
Please note: I'd be more than happy to engage in a public debate with Mr. Meiklejohn over whether or not the scientific evidence supports the evolution story or the biblical account of creation and the flood. (John Feakes).
Also note that our museum will be bilingual (as will our website - translation of our articles is underway); all of our museum displays will be in both French and English. The French newspaper "La liberte" ran a story about our plans to open the first (as far as we know) creation museum in Manitoba (article ran July 9th, 2003).
The Museum
Our museum, like our entire ministry, is designed to give our creator and savior all the glory due him, and to give people some solid reasons to accept the Bible as factual history. Please call (204) 667-6548 to arrange a tour of our museum.
To help you navigate through our on-line museum, we've grouped photos of our artifacts and displays in the categories listed below. Enjoy your tour. We hope you return better informed and closer to the Lord!
- Falsifying the Geologic Column
- Humans and Dinosaurs
- Human Evolution
- The Creation Model
- New Testament Evidences
- Old Testament Evidences
- Our friends and our museum
1. Falsifying the Geologic Column
According to evolutionists, the layers of the earth represent billions of years of geological history. These layers were given ages and names way back in the 1830's, and the entire mental abstract is today referred to as the geologic column. This theoretical column contains an evolutionary progression of life forms upward through the rock layers. This column exists nowhere in the real world; fossils are inserted into the column (on paper) based on the idea that evolution has actually occurred. How then can the evolutionist then turn around and claim that the so-called geologic column is proof of evolution? It beats us how such circularity can be embraced by the so-called scholarly and scientific community.
Actually, many fossils and artifacts have been rude enough to have inserted themselves in rock layers they have absolutely no business being in (according to evolution). Here are some examples:
The Paluxy River Prints
Near the turn of the 20th century the Paluxy River near Glen Rose Texas (southwest of Fortworth) flooded, lifting several layers of limestone off the river's bed. In the underlying limestone layers, hundreds of dinosaur footprints were discovered. So many prints were found that Dinosaur State Park was erected nearby.
What many people don't know, or try to deny, is that many human-like footprints have also been found in the same strata layer as the dinosaur prints. This is utterly decimating to the evolution theory. Either human beings of modern anatomic type have been around for the last 100 million years (effectively predating all the so-called missing links and thereby undermining all the fossil evidence for human evolution), or else the way we reckon the age of fossils needs serious re-evaluation.
Among the footprint casts we have acquired from the Paluxy we have the famous Burdick Print (sectioned and shown to be genuine), as well as a three-toed Acrocanthosaurous footprint with a clearly human footprint inside. We also have a cast of the large cat track found in this so-called Cretaceous limestone. This print is just as devastating to the evolution theory since large mammals were not supposed to have evolved until long after the dinosaurs went extinct.
The Zapata Track - New Mexico
This clearly human footprint was discovered in so-called Permian limestone (based on the associated fossils) said to be 250 million years old. Some have suggested that the print is a carving, which is highly unlikely. According to geologist Don Patton, the rock the print was found in is 30% silica, making it extremely hard - so hard that striking this rock with a hammer will actually produce a spark. It's remote location high in the mountains, coupled with the fact that four more like it in sequence were photgraphed less than 1/2 mile away, argues for this prints' authenticity.
The London Artifact
We have in our collection a replica of the famous "London Artifact" provided by the Creation Evidence Museum of Glen Rose Texas. In June of 1934, the Hahn family discovered a piece of wood protruding from a rock on Red Creek near London Texas. They chiseled it open to expose the hammer's head. The rock is apparently Cretaceous, supposedly at least 65 million years old. The hammer head is made out of a rare iron and chlorine mixture.
The Cup in Coal
Frank J. Kenard, working at the Municipal Electric Plant in Thomas Oklahoma in 1912, broke open a lump of coal with a sledgehammer, exposing this iron pot inside. According to the evolution story, coal takes millions of years to form. Creationists believe that the world's coal deposits were formed during the flood of Noah, when the earth's forests were rapidly buried and compressed. Artifacts buried in coal testify to the validity of the creationist position. The cup we have is a replica provided by the Creation Evidence Museum of Glen Rose Texas.
The Cretaceous Handprint
This clearly human handprint impression was discovered by construction workers near Glen Rose Texas in supposedly cretaceous limestone (assumed to be 70-120 millions years ago). According to paleontologist Joe Taylor and geologist Don Patton, the impression would be practically impossible to forge. The Creation Evidence Museum of Glen Rose Texas has begun examinations. A C.T. scan has revealed compression of laminations.
The Famous Meister Print
In 1968, 43 miles southwest of Delta, Utah, William J. Meister found this apparent human shoeprint inside a 2-inch-thick slab of rock. Also in that slab of rock were very obvious trilobite fossils, one of which was squashed under the heel of the 10-inch-long shoeprint. According to the evolution story, trilobites went extinct 240 years before humans evolved. This artifact therefore utterly disrupts the evolutionary concept of earth history.
The original Meister print is owned by Dr. Carl Baugh, curator of the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose Texas. During our visit to his facility in September 2004, Dr. Baugh graciously allowed us a cast of this valuable artifact which was created by casting expert par excellence Larry Mitchum of Temple Texas. As far as we know, the C.A.R.E. museum in Winnipeg possesses the only known cast of this important artifact in the world.
A Fossil Coelacanth
Once thought to have gone extinct more than 60 million years ago, the coelacanth was found alive and well in the Indian Ocean in 1938. For years the coelacanth was used as an index fossil, meaning that rock layers containing this fossil were immediately assumed to be at least 60 million years old. This "living fossil" clearly shows the error in modern dating attempts.
2. Humans and Dinosaurs
The Ica Stones
To date nearly 50,000 of these ornate stones have been discovered in Ica Peru. The sophisticated carvings on these stones depict every known dinosaur. Several of the stones were sent to Germany for analysis and dated to remote antiquity (A.D. 500 according to paleontologist Joe Taylor's "Fossil Facts & Fantasies"). Some have argued against the validity of these artifacts, citing the fact that the peasant who first found and sold several of the stones publicly "confessed" to have carved them. According to Don Patton, the punishment for selling Peruvian treasures is a ten-year jail sentence. The "forger's" confession was simply a tactic to stay out of jail (where the average lifespan of an inmate is about two years). Note that even in his TV interview, he stated that only the stones he sold were recent carvings. All the others, he asserted, were genuine.
The Hadrosaur and the Plesiosaur
Both these creatures are among many so-called pre-historic animals found fossilized in South Carolina, along with various mammals, including man! Our fossil Hadrosaur skull cast was provided by Joe Taylor of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum and Casting Company. Our baby Plesiosaur cast was made by John Gusti at CSE.
The Girl / Dino Print
This dinosaur footprint was one of the many found in the Paluxy riverbed near Glen Rose, Texas. Though many of the human-like prints in the riverbed have been dismissed as the result of dinosaurs "walking funny" and / or their prints becoming eroded, this particular print is compelling. The dinosaur print contains what appears to be a very human-like footprint inside of it. Take a look for yourself. What else could this impression be?
The Ishtar Gate in Baylon
In the sixth century B.C., King Nebuchadnezar of Babylon undertook many ambitious building projects. One was an elaborate and ornate gate adorned with sculptures of many animals readily identifiable. Among them are these puzzling creatures. They look reptilian, with long necks and tails. Were the Babylonians seeing dragons (actually dinosaurs) way back then?
The Cambodian Stegosaurus
The 10th Century Ta Prom temple is covered in beautiful engravings of all sorts of animals. Among them is this convincing representation of a stegosaurus. How did the ancients manage to depict this animal so accurately?
3. Human Evolution
Our museum features a whole line-up of supposed human missing links. These skulls are the famous ones - the ones you will normally see in the textbooks or museums. Not only do we have high quality casts of these fossils, we have the real story behind them was well!
The Famous 1470 Skull (Homo Rudolfensis)
The discovery of the human-like skull 1470 under volcanic material dated at between 212 to 220 million years old has sparked controversy that rages even today. Because of the associated fossils, the volcanic material was re-dated to an "accurate" and "secure" date of 2.61 million years before the discovery of skull 1470. According to the evolution story, humans of the modern anatomical type did not evolve until less than 1 million years ago. The obvious problem was dealt with by the evolutionist community in the expected fashion: They changed the fossils' taxon (Homo Habilis to Homo Rudolfensis) and age (1.9 million years) to cohere with the evolution story. Richard Leakey's comments then are as important today: "Either we toss out this skull or we toss out our theories of early man. [The skull's surprisingly large braincase] leaves in ruins the notion that all early fossils can be arranged in an orderly sequence of evolutionary change." (As quoted in National Geographic Magazine).
The Taung Fossil and The Black Skull (Africanus and Aetheopithecus)
The Taung fossil was discovered in 1924 by Ray Dart and was our claimed evolutionary ancestor. This interpretation was challenged by the skull's noted similarity to infant chimpanzees and serious questions regarding its supposed age of 2-3 million years. These objections caused an interesting range of responses from the evolutionist community, with some paleoanthropologists suggesting that the Taung fossil was more human-like than was first suspected and should therefore be placed in the "Homo" taxon. Others suggested Taung was more ape like than first suggested and should be placed in the lineage of the robust autstralopithecines. Truly the evidence is plastic in the evolutionist's hands. A general consensus was agreed upon, however, and Taung was placed on a separate evolutionary branch than humans - until 1986.
In 1985 the Black Skull was discovered, which caused confusion regarding man's true evolutionary ancestry. Taung was quietly returned to its place in the charts as a human ancestor (Australopithecus africanus), none of the objections regarding its similarity to living primates nor its age having been adequately addressed.
Lucy's Skull (Australopithecus afarensis)
"Lucy" was discovered in Africa in 1974, and was immediately displayed as our long lost ancestor. Less than 40 % of the creature was actually found, and its bones have been subjected to a variety of interpretations (see www.omniology.com for more on this). One thing that all can agree on is that this creature was overwhelmingly ape-like. From the time of its discovery until fairly recently, evolutionists have used Lucy as the poster child for evolution. Clear proof that creation is wrong. As we expected, Lucy is today being displaced from her place in our family tree in favor of other so-called "missing links." Give it up guys.
The Broken Hill Man (A.K.A. The Rhodesian Man)
This skull was discovered in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, in 1921. Despite its "savage" and "ape-like" appearance, it's cranial capacity of 1280 cc's demands that we classify it as a Homo sapien. Because the skull was found unfossilized, it was originally assigned an age of 40,000 years. Its "primitive" appearance, however, has led many scientists (guided by evolutionary presuppositions) to extend the age to between 200,000 and 400,000 years.
Almost all textbooks which deal with the Rhodesian Man refer to him as an "archaic" homo sapien, which presupposes that humans have evolved from ape-like ancestors. Ignored is the fact that it was found inside a lead-zinc mine 60 feet underground, and that it was found alongside more "modern" human skeletal remains (see Marvin Lubenow, "Bones of Contention", Baker Books, 1992). The Rhodesian Man, then, was either mining for lead and/or zinc, or he lived alongside modern humans that were. Either way, he cannot be thought of as a missing link. Actually, the "savage" appearance is most likely due to a medical condition known was acromegaly (excessive growth hormone), which tends to alter the shape of the skull (see "Buried Alive" by Jack Cuozzo, Master Books, 1999).
Homo Sapiens Sapiens Skull
This is the skull of the typical person alive today (though many variations exist). Scientists refer to this species as Homo (Man) Sapien Sapien (wise, wise). In other words, we today are the wise, wise men. We don't think so. Anyone spending all their free time digging in the dirt looking for "missing links" is a fool professing to be wise (Romans 1:22 says, "professing to be wise, they became fools…").
The Giant's Axe Head
Evolution teaches that humans were once small and dumb, but today we are so much better. According to the Bible however, humans were once smart, huge, and disease free. Because of man's sin, the human race was cursed and we have been degenerating ever since. Genesis 6:4 reads, "There were giants in the earth in those days:" Is there any evidence for the existence of giants on the earth? We think so (see www.omniology.com for much more on this, or Dr. Kent Hovind's seminar part 2 www.drdino.com)
The axe head we have on display is the largest we have ever seen. It weighs a staggering 27 ½ pounds! Who could have swung a thing like this? Maybe a giant.
4.The Creation Model
Salamander Skulls
We have in our collection a skull cast of the Giant Chinese Salamander, the largest of its kind in the world today. We also have a cast of the Metoposaur, a giant salamander from supposedly "prehistoric" times. This skull is 20 inches long - five times the size of its largest living relative. Giant fossils such as these - particularly those animals which breath through their skin - supports the belief in a pre-flood world where the environment was much more hospitable for life.
The Oldest Bat Fossil
We have in our collection a cast of the oldest, best preserved bat fossil in the world. This same cast is found in the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta. Of interest is the fact that this fossil is said to be "fully modern in appearance." What does this mean? It means that bats appear in the fossil record fully formed, with no evolutionary history whatsoever!
Micro vs Macro Evolution
Evolutionists regularly claim that evolution can be seen going on around us all the time. Often they point to the variety we see within the dog kind as an example of evolution in action. What they don't seem to understand is that not all change can be claimed as an evolutionary change. The kind of changes we going on in dogs are really just the result of old genes being recombined in new ways. For evolution to occur, brand new genes must somehow be created through random mutations. This has never been seen.
Evidence for the Flood: The Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is one of the most spectacular natural wonders. Our Grand Canyon display features a scale model cross-section of the canyon's impressive sequence of strata, and asks us to consider what forces, energy, and mechanisms were responsible for the canyon's formation.
Peaceful Vegetarians
The Bible teaches that the world that God originally made was perfect and death free. Genesis 1:29-31 specifically tells us that all the animals were originally herbivorous. Some argue that many animals such as saber toothed tigers seem designed to be flesh eaters. How can this be?
The Incredible Giraffe
The creation model states that God created all the plants and animals, and that evolution by natural selection is really a hopeless explanation for the complexity we see in the natural world. Few animals provide a better evidence for the creation view than the mighty giraffe.
5. New Testament Evidences
The Pilate inscription
In 1961 Italian archaeologist Antonio Frova discovered a Latin inscription at Caesarea Maritima. This inscription names Pontius Pilate as Prefect. It is the only archaeological evidence of both Pilate's name and title. Most believe that the inscription was part of a temple dedication in honor of Tiberius Caesar. The inscription on display in our museum is a full scale replica based on the one we saw at the Bible Museum and Resource Center in Collierville Tenn. (Operated by Don Bassett).
The Paullus Inscription
While visiting Cyprus on his first missionary journey, The Apostle Paul met the proconsul named Sergius Paulus (Acts 13:6-12). This inscription (replica) found on the north coast of Cyprus is dated "…in the proconsulship of Paullus…" Of interest is the fact that one of the officers of Claudius in Rome was named Lucius Sergius Paullus. It is quite possible that afterward he was transferred to Cyprus where he met the famous Apostle.
6. Old Testament Evidences
The Narmer Pallette Cast
The Narmer Pallette dates from pre-dynastic Egypt and depicts the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under King Narmer. The artifact has apologetic value for three reasons: 1. The event it depicts (the start of the 1st dynasty) has been lowered time-wise by scholars from 5800 BC to around 3000 BC during the past 100 years of research. Note the trend: the date is starting to fall in line with the biblical chronology, 2. The Pallette contains depictions of large, four-footed, long necked animals, which resemble nothing alive today, but do resemble dinosaurs, 3. the animals on the Pallette have their long necks intertwined, a motif also seen in Babylonian cylinder seals which apparently predate the the Narmer Pallette. According to the Bible, all the people were once gathered in Mesopotamia to build the Tower of Babel, until God intervened and dispersed them. It is not surprising then, to find Mesopotamian influence in pre-dynastic Egyptian art.
Murray's Book!
Murray D. Hiebert's amazing book documenting the historicity of the book of Joshua is a must-read for anyone interested in Old Testament apologetics
7. Our friends and our museum
Since our inception, God has been blessing our ministry in numerous ways. Our museum has grown and many of us have been asked to speak at different churches, conferences, etc. Thank you Lord, for giving us great opportunities to spread the truth of your word and the many evidences for it.We are also very grateful for our many heroes in the faith who have gone before us, and have given us much time, knowledge and encouragement. Dr. Carl Baugh, Dr. Larry Mitchum, Dr. Kent Hovind, Dr. Jack Cuozzo, John Gusti, and Dr. Denis Swift are among the many that have blessed the CARE team immeasurably.