Carl Baugh

[[File:Cem pan.JPG|thumb|right|165px|[[Ian Juby]] 
miseducating
 lecturing at Baugh’s Creation Evidence Museum]]
{{crenav|1}}{{cquote|Hmmm, it seems that even geologically-confused 'yabba-daba-doo' merchants have jumped on the  [[Philosophical naturalism|anti-naturalist]] bandwagon. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the low hanging fruit. In case you don't recognize this chap, his name is Carl Baugh; or to give him his formal academic title, Carl Baugh. He is infamous in creationist circles for being so incompetent that even other nut-cases who aren't worth listening to — such as [[Answers in Genesis]], [[Creation Ministries International]] and [[Ken Ham]] — have expressed concerns that he might blow the whole gig.||| [[YouTube]]r Gary Edwards on Baugh <ref name=FakeFossilPhilosophy>From the video entitled [https://web.archive.org/web/20150424144229/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5Zncj7s0g ''Fake Fossil Philosophy '']</ref> }}

'''Carl Baugh''' (1936-) is an incoherent [[Young Earth creationism|Young Earth creationist]] so inept at creationist [[apologetics]] that even [[Ken Ham]] has warned against relying on his [[bullshit]].<ref>[[talk.origins]], [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/whatbau.html ''What About Carl Baugh? A Commentary by Answers in Genesis'']</ref> 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 {{wpl|Expressive aphasia|Broca's}} aphasia."<ref name=FakeFossilPhilosophy/> Also, just like [[Kent Hovind|"Dr." Dino]], Baugh has a record of [[credentialism]] based on some rather, um, [[Professor of nothing|shaky]] [[Diploma mill|documentation]].<ref>talk.origins, [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/degrees.html ''A Matter of Degree: Carl Baugh's Alleged Credentials''] (Originally published in ''NCSE Reports'', Vol. 9, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1989)</ref> His biography notes that he's made at least one expedition searching for [[Noah's Ark]] on Mount Ararat.<ref>[http://www.creationevidence.org/about_us/directors_bio.php Director's Bio, Carl Edward Baugh] creationevidence.org. Retrieved on 29 January 2016.</ref> 

==Beliefs==
{{cquote|A crystalline firmament suspended above the planet filtered out [[shortwave|short-wave]] radiation, and with its physical structure in place universal [[radio]] signals serenaded the earth with morning melodies. Planets in the [[Solar System]] were distributed at harmonic intervals on a large scale, consistent with the energy fields living seeds produce on a small scale.|||A sampling of Carl Baugh's bizarre babble from the Creation Evidence Museum of [[Texas]] website.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120214055534/http://www.creationevidence.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=10 Creation Model Session 6.] creationevidence.org. Retrieved on 29 January 2016.</ref>}}

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 {{wpl|The Flintstones|''The Flintstones''}} ([[Poe's Law|no kidding…]]).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160111025052/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/h64tz4/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-tyrannosaurus-redux Tyrannosaurus Redux.], ''The Daily Show.'' 14 November 2001. Retrieved on 29 January 2016.</ref>

He has a truly mind-warping paper, entitled ''Crystalline Canopy Theory'', posted on his website,<ref>[http://www.creationevidence.org/evidence/crystillane_canopy_theory.php Crystalline Canopy Theory]</ref> 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,<ref>[http://creationwiki.org/Crystalline_canopy CreationWiki: Crystalline canopy]</ref> Baugh's crystalline canopy 
theory
 
hypothesis
 [[PIDOOMA|idea]] is a variant on the claim that the waters of [[Noah's flood]] came from a [[Vapor canopy|canopy]] above the Earth and "crystalline" refers to Baugh's notion that the canopy was made of ice crystals.

==Creation Evidence Museum==
[[File:Creation Evidence Museum Original.jpg|thumb|right|165px|The old museum]]
Baugh founded the {{wpl|Creation Evidence Museum}} (originally called Creation Evidences Museum) in a double wide trailer near Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas in 1984,<ref>[http://www.creationevidence.org/about_us/about_creation_evidence_museum_texas.php Creation Evidence Museum &mdash; About Us]</ref> 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 "[[Not even wrong|isn't even wrong]]" and generic rocks and hyperbaric chambers and glass cases of unrelated fossils and [[evangelical]] kitsch."<ref name="whited">[http://thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-trip-to-creation-evidence-museum-in.html My trip to the Creation Evidences Museum in Glen Rose, Texas.] thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.com. 24 October 2010. Retrieved on 29 January 2016.</ref> The museum includes a "replica" of [[Noah's Ark]] purporting to demonstrate an engineering technique used in the construction of the Ark.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110318185831/http://184.154.224.5/~creatio1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=3 What's New at CEM? Noah's Ark Replica.] Retrieved on 29 January 2016.</ref> The "museum" also inexplicably includes a larger-than-life statue of American football coach Tom Landry.<ref name="whited"/>

=="Notable" works==
{{cquote|We're sorry, the specified program is not valid.|||Trinity Broadcast Networks, in a [[stopped clock]] moment, accurately describes Carl Baugh's TV show.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091019114842/http://www.tbn.org/watch-us/our-programs/creation-in-the-21st-century-hosted-by-dr-carl-baugh Creation in the 21st Century, hosted by "Dr." Carl Baugh.] tbn.org. Retrieved on 29 January 2016.</ref>}}

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.<ref group=note>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 [http://www.angelfire.com/mt/GICC/jppersonalministryinfo.html "worked in cancer research for 1 1/2 years".] He has been the focus of the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itlYG5Xutns&list=PLSr63zLFV8-G41HEg-H11bMqat5_Mca1i ''Hello, I'm a Scientist''] debunking series by [[YouTube]]r Logicked.</ref> This series was countered by [[RationalWiki:Vlogroll|YouTube vlogger]] Logicked in a series called ''Science in the 12th Century''.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSr63zLFV8-Ft4ZDzZS3NNdkurxuTjT0S Science in the 12th Century.] youtube.com. Retrieved on 10 February 2016.</ref> The program seems to have been inherited by David Rives.

==External Links==
*[http://www.creationevidence.org Creation Evidence Museum]
*[http://www.americanloons.blogspot.sk/2013/03/476-carl-baugh.html Carl Baugh] at the Encyclopedia of American Loons
*[http://ncse.com/rncse/29/5/creation-evidence-museum Creation Evidence Museum report] at the National Center for Science Education

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