Carl Baugh

thumb|right|165px|Ian Juby miseducating lecturing at Baugh’s Creation Evidence Museum
Carl Baugh (1936-) is an incoherent Young Earth creationist so inept at creationist apologetics that even Ken Ham has warned against relying on his bullshit.talk.origins, What About Carl Baugh? A Commentary by Answers in Genesis He is also infamous for a stilted, staccato word salad style of speaking that makes his presentation sound "like it has been translated from Chinese by someone with with aphasia." Also, just like "Dr." Dino, Baugh has a record of credentialism based on some rather, um, shaky documentation.talk.origins, A Matter of Degree: Carl Baugh's Alleged Credentials (Originally published in NCSE Reports, Vol. 9, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1989) His biography notes that he's made at least one expedition searching for Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat.Director's Bio, Carl Edward Baugh creationevidence.org. Retrieved on 29 January 2016. 
==Beliefs==
As for the contents of his creationist claims, Baugh has latched onto the most ridiculous and transparent bunk (hence Answers In Genesis' caution against relying on him) and has stuck to all of it long after slightly less crappy apologists have cut their losses and distanced themselves from it. Examples include everything from the Paluxy River tracks (which Baugh continued to defend in The Mysterious Origins of Man), Moab Man, and that the London Hammer is a genuine out-of-place artifact and evidence for a recent creation. Indeed, The Daily Show lampooned Baugh and his views back in 2001 when it interviewed him and he claimed that human history was like (no kidding…).Tyrannosaurus Redux., The Daily Show. 14 November 2001. Retrieved on 29 January 2016.
He has a truly mind-warping paper, entitled Crystalline Canopy Theory, posted on his website,Crystalline Canopy Theory but, despite statements like "Recent analysis of astronomical polarization data demonstrates that the universe has an optical axis, and the universe appears to behave in a similar way as a crystal with optical activity", it has nothing to do with crystal woo. Instead, as the slightly more comprehensible explanation provided by CreationWiki makes clear,CreationWiki: Crystalline canopy Baugh's crystalline canopy theory hypothesis idea is a variant on the claim that the waters of Noah's flood came from a canopy above the Earth and "crystalline" refers to Baugh's notion that the canopy was made of ice crystals.
==Creation Evidence Museum==
Baugh founded the (originally called Creation Evidences Museum) in a double wide trailer near Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas in 1984,Creation Evidence Museum — About Us 23 years before Ken Ham's more infamous Creation Museum in Kentucky. Later upgraded to a somewhat more attractive facility, the pseudo-museum is a "shapeless mass of… things and ideas and stuff that "isn't even wrong" and generic rocks and hyperbaric chambers and glass cases of unrelated fossils and evangelical kitsch."My trip to the Creation Evidences Museum in Glen Rose, Texas. thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.com. 24 October 2010. Retrieved on 29 January 2016. The museum includes a "replica" of Noah's Ark purporting to demonstrate an engineering technique used in the construction of the Ark.What's New at CEM? Noah's Ark Replica. Retrieved on 29 January 2016. The "museum" also inexplicably includes a larger-than-life statue of American football coach Tom Landry.
=="Notable" works==
Baugh presented a program called Creation in the 21st Century on Trinity Broadcasting Network, featuring guests like Ian Juby and "chemist scientist" John Morris Pendleton.Pendleton is an auto mechanic automotive technician with a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who likes to dress up in a lab coat and claims to have "worked in cancer research for 1 1/2 years". He has been the focus of the Hello, I'm a Scientist debunking series by YouTuber Logicked. This series was countered by YouTube vlogger Logicked in a series called Science in the 12th Century.Science in the 12th Century. youtube.com. Retrieved on 10 February 2016. The program seems to have been inherited by David Rives.
==External Links==
*Creation Evidence Museum
*Carl Baugh at the Encyclopedia of American Loons
*Creation Evidence Museum report at the National Center for Science Education
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