Our team of Christian home educators and paleontologists began the daunting task of excavating a Brachiosaur believed to be one hundred to one hundred and twenty feet in length. Like Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, and Argentinasaurus to name a few, the Brachiosaur on which we are working is a species of Sauropod, the very kind of animal described in Job 40 as the Behemoth. These animals are simply enormous. Evidence from fossilized dinosaur excrement indicates that they were herbivorous creatures and the biblical record reinforces this conclusion.

It was simply joyful to begin our day with prayer and a reading from Scripture about this amazing dinosaur, and then look face-to-face into the fossil graveyard of its bones. The animal is remarkably well preserved and nicely articulated in the rock matrix. The novices on our trip are learning to identify bone and to use a variety of tools, from rock picks to pneumatic precision drills called “chicagos.” Our first day yeilded so many new finds of bones that we have had to slow down the discovery process. Each newly-discovered dinosaur bone brings with it the responsibility of careful preservation and excavation. Some of the bones are in excess of eight feet in length and will require the better part of a week to properly remove. My personal prayer and vision is that these young men and ladies working on this site will someday have the privilege of seeing their work and discoveries presented to the general public through Creation museums which will tell the true story of their death and destruction at the time of the global deluge.

One of the massive Brachiosaur ribs we will be excavating and restoring.

From Doug’s Bookshelf: Creation and Change: Genesis 1:1 - 2:4 in the Light of Changing Scientific Paradigms, by Douglas Kelly is one of the most helpful exegetical analyses on the market of the first two chapters of Genesis. This book is a must-have tool for those who hold to the historical, literal-gramatical approach to Bible interpretation and who seek to refute the various compromise theories which plague the seminaries of America.