I don't know if I sent you this one or one similar. Anyway, it is interesting and kind of funny.... According to San Diego Natural History Museum: > > If you can stand one more creation museum-related tale...there is a > Creation Evidences Museum near the Paluxy River dinosaur tracks at Glen > Rose, Texas. It is run by a reverend and is notorious for having > everything misidentified (mammoth tooth identified as the ribcage of a > baby saber-tooth cat, etc.). There is a picture of Stephen J. > Gould posing near it in a Natural History article a few years ago. > Anyway, the rev showed up at the vertebrate paleo labs at the University > of Texas a few years ago with a fossil fish tooth he had found in the > dinosaur tracks area and made everybody's life miserable for the next few > months claiming that he had found the first confirmed human tooth in a > dinosaur track, which fits their chronology. He also said that we had > confirmed his identification, which we hadn't. UPI, AP, all the media > picked up his story but not our corrections. If you pick up the 51st > anniversary issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1992, you > will find a short story called "The Dinosaur Season" which is loosely > based on our run-in with this guy. Some of us are VERY thinly disguised. > > I guess what bothered me most about this, and bothers me about the > creation museum out here in my neck of the woods, is that the creation > museums don't feel obliged to play by our rules but want to be considered > as museums on the same level as those of us who do abide by the rules. I > never felt that, as a known quantity, I could visit the Texas museum > (last I heard, it was still in a trailer), but I should go check out the > California place for the sake of objectivity and report back to MUSEUM-L. > > Has anyone considered putting together a list of your favorite weird > museums of all time? > > Sally Shelton > Collections Conservation Specialist > San Diego Natural HIstory Museum >