Joe Taylor was an artist by profession with credits in illustration, logo design, epic murals, and sculpture. This background in art opened the doors to many museum fossil collections. Taylor’s ability to restore and replicate fossil specimens accurately made him invaluable to many public and private collections and this access to the inner sanctums to the heady world of paleontology gave Taylor a unique body of critical information. Though he did not have a degree in paleontology, Taylor spent far more time working directly with fossil specimens, from all over the world, than many who have degrees in the field. Taylor believed that what you know about a fossil is as important as the fossil itself. The combination of these two make the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum and the 1st Institute of Omniology a rare and valuable experience. His collection of information and fossils spans twenty years and is what had convinced him of his position of young earth creationism. Many fellow collectors and fossil preparators are shocked to find out that Taylor believed that the earth is only six thousand years old and that most fossils, especially those of dinosaurs, were buried in the worldwide flood of Noah only four and a half thousand years ago.