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[[Image:DAL-CreationMuseum1.jpg|thumb|right|A tyrannosaur sculpture seems to burst through the front of the Creation Museum.]]
===Science Center===
The largest structure on the Dinosaur Adventure Land property is the three-story Science Center. Because of Hovind's failure to obtain a building permit (see [[#Legal troubles|below]]), the Science Center has been closed since April 2006. The bookstore, previously housed in the Science Center, has been moved to the Hovinds' private home. Before its closure, the building featured a "Fossil Dig Pit" at the bottom of an open-air atrium. The stairways were lined with various other exhibits, most of which either attempted to disprove mainstream scientific thought or applied Biblical analogies to basic scientific concepts. Some of the activities have been moved outdoors and are still included on the DAL tour.
One such exhibit is labeled "That River Didn't Make That Canyon!!!" It attempts to show how the [[Wikipedia:Grand Canyon|Grand Canyon]] was not formed by the [[Wikipedia:Colorado River|Colorado River]] over millions of years, but rather by the Biblical [[Wikipedia:Deluge (mythology)|Deluge]]. Children are invited to fill a metal trough with water from a spigot and observe how, after enough water has built up behind a pile of sand, a rivulet will break through and form a miniature "canyon." Tour guides also note that the point where the Colorado River enters the canyon is higher than where it exits. They assert that "evolutionists" believe that the river must have "flowed uphill for millions of years" to create the canyon, though this is not the accepted scientific explanation of [[Wikipedia:Geology of the Grand Canyon area#Creation of the Grand Canyon|how the Grand Canyon was formed]].
