Museum Of Earth History Expansion

MOEH Expansion Goal: $80,000

Update

Around three decades ago, Dr. G. Thomas Sharp had a revelation regarding teaching dinosaurs and their connection with God’s Word – bring a real, legitimate dinosaur fossil museum to the local church. Instead of building a museum that presented a Biblical worldview to which people must travel, bring the museum to the community! Let it be an outreach for the local church and an encouragement to God’s people to stand firmly on God’s Word! The only problem: how do you do that?!?!

Through the invaluable help of family, friends, and faithful supporters, the idea became a reality, and the message of Dr. Sharp and Creation Truth Foundation began to spread across the country, accompanied by the mobile Museum of Earth History (MOEH). Dr. Sharp would often refer to the dinosaur fossils as “God’s Gospel lizards” because they served to open doors to people who might never have entered a church building but might come to see dinosaurs, at which time they would hear not only interesting facts about dinosaurs and the Bible, but the Gospel message of Jesus Christ. And that mission continues today.

As Creation Truth Foundation presses on through its 35th year, the ministry continues to grow. The requests for programs have done nothing but increase, meaning there has been and still is a need to conduct multiple programs at one time. This is accomplished with multiple speakers, but there is one problem – we can only have fossils in one place.

It has been our desire for years to be able to have dinosaur programs with fossils in two different locations at the same time. Because of how quickly the schedule fills up, having two fossil trailers would allow churches to schedule us sooner instead of having to wait one or more years. Additionally, if the fossils are on one side of the country but a church would like to have us on the other side of the country, we would not have to delay multiple weeks for the fossils to return home and be sent out again. Rather, a separate trailer with fossils could go ahead and take off. Thus, the ministry has been praying for some time for the addition of a second trailer with fossils to become reality.

By the gracious provision of our Lord and His people, and just in time for CTF to celebrate its 35th anniversary, 2024 is the year this prayer becomes reality!

Starting with our 2023 end-of-year goal of $20,000 for a new trailer, God’s people have gotten us off to a tremendous start! $41,265 was raised, a trailer meeting our needs to transport fossils has been ordered, and it is in production as we write this.

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Secondly, the fossils to put in the new trailer have been brought to our warehouse, where we have been working to construct and modify their travel crates. This is the most time-consuming and difficult part of the MOEH Expansion Project. Each crate must be customized for the specific fossils it will transport. This requires a great deal of planning, fabricating, and modifying to get things just right so the fossils will not only fit, but also be protected during transportation. There are no blueprints for such an endeavor, and as our ministry president Matt Miles is fond of saying, “This is something they don’t teach you in Bible college.”

However, one crate has not only been completed, but a new large marine fossil made its first trip to the ICR Discovery Center for their Dinosaur Week! [see below]

Thirdly, now we need a ¾-ton truck to pull the new trailer (i.e., 250 or 2500 truck). The extra $18,000 received for the end-of-year goal is being used for the crate constructions, and whatever is left over will go toward the purchase of a truck. Including the truck, the total projected cost to complete the MOEH Expansion Project is $80,000, of which $41,265 has been received.

As always, we covet your prayers not only for this endeavor, but for the effectiveness of the Gospel-centered message CTF is taking across the country. Please pray for the safety of our travels, for hearts to be impacted, and for lives to be saved and changed to the glory of our Creator and the furtherance of His Kingdom.

Our newest exhibit for our mobile museum Dolichorhynchops bonneri on display last week at the ICR Discovery Center in Dallas, TX.

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September/October 2025 Printed Newsletter

October 2, 2025

Flooded Marine Reptile

By Matt Miles • October 2, 2025

The Flood during Noah’s day was a devastating judgement against the sin and wickedness of the time. Most people focus on what the Lord did as He saved the eight people and animals on the Ark. Yet while they were being saved, the Flood destroyed the earth and left behind some remarkable things. Geology around the globe shows water burial of plants and animals. Many of the animal remains show signs of drowning and then burial. One particular reptile that shows this is the Ichthyosaurus. From what we can understand, water was her home for everything in life, even giving birth to live young. This well designed creature may even help us trust the Word of God when it comes to the history of the Flood. In our Mobile Museum of Earth History we exhibit a research replica of an ichthyosaur called Stenopterygius quadriscissus . She is from Holzmaden, Germany and is one example of hundreds that have been found in the area. The reason we can so confidently state this fossil is a “her,” when we rarely know for sure about fossil animals, is because she is pregnant. She has three babies present with her remains: one under her tail, one in or near the birth canal, and one still inside. Our fossil is in situ, which means the fossil remains in the rock matrix it was buried in. So, the presence of momma and babies are how they were buried and not articulated in some manner after excavation. This is important to show the rapid, watery burial that must have taken place to lock this scene in the fossil record. The Flood trapped organisms all over the world in different life positions. Sometimes the fossils left behind have shown eating, hunting, sleeping, swimming, nesting, or drowning. When it comes to ichthyosaurs around the planet, there is a significant number of females that seem to be pregnant. They have been found in the fossil record on at least four continents. A fair assumption would be that Ichthyosaurs had a certain time of year they mated and gave birth to young, much like sea turtles today that nest from late spring to late fall depending on the region around the world. So it should come as no surprise that we find pregnant ichthyosaurs all around the world as the Flood lasted an entire year. It would have buried the females that were pregnant near their location of habitat. Evolutionists maintain that ichthyosaurs lived tens to hundreds of million years ago and each of the mothers found in the fossil record just died while giving birth. This is difficult to support in a millions magnitude time scale. That would mean every time a disaster happened, millions of years apart, the right conditions existed to quickly bury ichthyosaurs that just so happened to be pregnant. It just might take some “faith” to trust that “miracle” would happen over and over again through eons of time. Or you can have faith that the Word of God’s history is correct with a judgement of man’s sin bringing global devastation through the Flood during Noah’s 600th year of life. The Word of God is trustworthy, with even the fossil record showing us glimpses of historical evidence in support of our faith. I’m so thankful we don’t need blind faith to trust our salvation! Blessings.

Our God Whom We Serve Is Able

By Ryan Cox • October 2, 2025

14 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the gold image which I have set up? 15 …if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?” 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. 18 But if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” Daniel 3:14-18 In the 6th century BC, three young men stood up for their faith in the one true God, for which someone attempted to kill them. Today, in the 21st century AD, one young man was gunned down for his faith in the one true God. And sadly, Charlie Kirk is not the only one. According to The Esther Project, martyrdom for the cause of Christ is commonplace around the world ( theestherproject.com/statistics ). On average: 322 Christians are killed monthly. 214 churches or Christian properties are destroyed monthly. 772 forms of violence (beatings, kidnappings, etc.) against Christians are committed monthly. 100,000 to 160,000 Christians are killed annually in the 21st century. 1.093 million Christians were martyred between 2000 and 2010. And more than 70 million Christians are believed to have been martyred since the 1st century, with more than half killed in the 20th century alone under communist and fascist governments. And how should Christians respond? Peter wrote, “ if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name ” (I Peter 4:16). Jesus took this a step further; He told us, “ …love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you ” (Matthew 5:44). Now, as Shawn Grant, minister at Kissimmee Christian Church, FL, preached on the Sunday following the assassination, th at may not be what you want to hear right now, but that is what Jesus has told us we must do. Why? So the world will see the difference Jesus makes! The night of and the days after the assassination, businesses did not have to board up their stores. Police and soldiers did not have to be deployed. There were no riots, no property damages, no police spat upon – only tears, prayers, and a witness to the world that Jesus is the answer. So noticeable is this to the world, there were more international press requests for the Charlie Kirk memorial service than are requested for Super Bowls. Within seven days of his death, Kirk’s ministry Turning Point USA had received over 54,000 campus chapter requests. And most importantly, scores of videos of young people considering or even deciding to give their lives to Jesus have been posted to social media platforms.