For the third year Vision Forum journeyed back to the land that yielded the magnificent Allosaur, detailed in our film Raising the Allosaur. On this occassion, God gave the Vision Forum dino dig team a beautiful day to work on a magnificent Stegosaurus. Here I am pictured with my yokefellow Wesley Strackbein. Wes and I have been serving the Lord together for almost a decade now. He is a man of remarkable principle, honor and integrity. We date our relationship back to the days he was an intern under my tutelage at the Home School Legal Defense Association.

Notice the deformation in the rock layer below in the image of Echo Canyon, Colorado. Evolutionary uniformitarian geology has no clear explanation for how solid rock gradually bends over millions of years. The fact is that such rock formations occur over a relatively short period of time, are the result of catastrophic events, and occur before hardening, when the rock is capable of deforming.

My middle name is Winston, after Churchill. The other week Beall and I were listening again to his biography of his childhood. Churchill’s logic is refreshing. He decries the injustice of modern schooling which takes boys away from their fathers, away from the real world, and often trains them to be intellectual, but useless. Home educators believe that “schooling” (discipleship-based education, to be precise) occurs from the moment a child wakes to the moment he goes to bed. But one of the joys of home education is the tremendous flexibility it offers children and their parents to pursue adventures for the glory of God, to learn in the context of real life experiences and to take the educational “hill,” by advancing the kingdom of God in areas that children strapped to a school desk for 20,000 hours of their childhood will never experience.

Wesley and Honor.

This is the paleontological laboratory of the evolutionary scientists manning the Dinasour National Monument Quarry Visitor Center. I love this lab and look forward to the day that it (and many hundreds of labs like it) will be run by creationists.

At this location we enjoyed climbing the rocks to find several dozen American Indian pictographs believed to be dated back nearly a millenia.

Liberty proved to be the best fossil hunter in the Phillips family during our visit to Cowboy Canyon, a site plenteous with fossilized raindrops and insects.

An image of a stegasuarus bone.

Mrs. Kathy Walsh did a wonderul job on the Stegosaurus. She applied a bonding agent solution that helped to prepare the bones for removal at a later time.

Jetting off to the dig site on a four-wheeler.