Creationist hopes his fossil find will get two plaques – one fitting his world view

Alberta man who discovered a rare fish fossil is happy to display it in a museum, even if he takes issue with scientists' stance: 'We agree to disagree'

If a Canadian museum decides to exhibit a recent fossil discovery, the man who found it, Edgar Nernberg, hopes it will be displayed with two plaques. One would contain local paleontologists' explanation, that the fossil is around 60 million years old. The other would explain Nernberg's view that his find is from the past 6,000 years, after the world began.

Nernberg is a long-time excavator, fossil collector and creationist. He believes in the biblical history of the creation of the world, not the scientifically accepted one. The Calgary Sun newspaper, to which he has sent between 30 and 40 letters on the subject, has said he is the "greatest promoter of creationism in Alberta".