Report: Tyler man says he's found fossils from biblical flood in front yard

Wayne Propst of Tyler is telling reporters in East Texas that he's found fossils dating back to the biblical flood in his backyard, but there is much reason to be skeptical. Wayne Propst of Tyler is telling reporters in East Texas that he's found fossils dating back to the biblical flood in his backyard, but there is much reason to be skeptical. Image 1 of / 14 Caption Close Report: Tyler man says he's found fossils from biblical flood in front yard 1 / 14 Back to Gallery

Wayne Propst of Tyler is telling reporters in East Texas that he's found snail fossils dating back to the biblical flood in his backyard, but almost everyone is skeptical for good reason.

The man was helping his aunt do some yard work when he says he discovered a cache of fossils of snails in the soil, according to KYTX-TV in Tyler.

Propst, who told reporters he loved dinosaurs as a kid, seems convinced that he's discovered remnants from the flood described in the Bible, the very flood that led to Noah and his family building an ark for every living creature on Earth.

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His only confirmation that he's dealing with something so old seems to be the word of a self-proclaimed fossil expert named Joe Taylor.

Taylor is best-known as the director and curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum in Crosbyton, east of Lubbock.

The museum states that it doesn't believe that fossils are millions of years old, but just thousands of years old, which might rankle some mainstream scientists. To the museum, the Bible is true science.

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Taylor's museum is a roadside curiosity for travelers and does spark interest in fossils among people of all ages, it seems.

Apparently, Taylor hasn't viewed the fossils with his own eyes. Nevertheless, he told reporters he's nearly sure that the fossils are from the time of that epic flood.

Meanwhile Propst and his aunt are still marveling at what they think is a discovery of biblical history.

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"What's really interesting to me is we're talking about the largest catastrophe known to man, the flood that engulfed the entire world," Propst told KYTX-TV.

Propst has hired local neighborhood children to help him with his ongoing archaeological dig. Aunt Sharon is using a toothbrush to clean the discoveries.

Fossils, of course, are found all over the world and all over Texas. Some Biblical scholars put the date of the Great Flood written about in the Bible at around 2348 B.C.

Fossils take thousands of years to make, as anyone who took science in elementary school likely learned.