As a follow up to my last post, I wanted to make note of a
fairly recent discovery that could shake the foundations of the scientific
community, specifically the non-believers. The Paluxy River in Texas is the
home of Dinosaur National Park with hundreds of fossil dinosaur tracks. Right
beside the dinosaur tracks are three sets of human fossil footprints and a
large cat track. The most famous track is the Taylor Trail, which consists of a
series of 14 footprints in a left-right pattern. The stride and foot length is
consistent throughout. The evidence is so convincing that several university
students recently presented with all the data accepted that the human
footprints were real, but doubted the dinosaur footprints were real. All the
fossil footprints in the Park are genuine. No informed person would ever
suggest that the human footprints were carved as was irresponsibly rumored 50
years ago. It is clear that man and dinosaur live together and co-existed at
the same time. With this both science and the Bible agree!
In Genesis, it is written:
"And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and
let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God
created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water
teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged
bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and
said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let
the birds increase on the earth.” And there was evening, and there was
morning—the fifth day. And God said, “Let the land produce living
creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and
the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made
the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their
kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their
kinds. And God saw that it was good." - Genesis 1:20-25
This indicates that all living land creaters were created prior to the creation of man and therefore would have roamed the earth together. This post is about to show evidence in support of that Biblical claim.
As evolutionists Milne and Schafersman admit, "Such an
occurrence, if verified, would seriously disrupt conventional interpretations
of biological and geological history and would support the doctrines of
creationism and catastrophism."
In the article "The Paluxy River Mystery" by John D. Morris,
Ph.D., he says,
"Consequently, anti-creationists have devoted an
inordinate amount of attention to this
project, often ignoring, ridiculing, and distorting the
evidence as reported by creationists. However, little significant
fieldwork was done at the site by the anti-creationists until 1982, when
"The American Humanist Association . . . financed a team of four
scientists to thoroughly investigate the claims first hand." This team of
four was comprised of Drs. Laurie Godfrey, John Cole, Steven Schafersman, and
Ronnie Hastings, and with the exception of Hastings, has as yet done little
fieldwork.
On the other hand, the Paluxy project has been the site of numerous
creationist field studies, since, while the creation model is not dependent on the
Paluxy evidence, the claim has always provided an easily understood
illustration of the creation model. The two most widely circulated and accepted
sources were the 1973 film, "Footprints in Stone," produced by
the late Stan Taylor, of Films for Christ, Inc., and this author's 1980
book, Tracking Those Incredible Dinosaurs and the People Who Knew Them.
When
Taylor and his film crew were drawn to the Paluxy in 1968 by a number of
published and unpublished reports of human and dinosaur tracks together, he
found many residents of the area who claimed to have seen many true human
tracks in the bed of the river, the best of which had since been carried away
by a flood, others badly eroded. Some of these long-time residents maintained
that a number of tracks of both man and dinosaur had been removed from the
river during the depression, and sold. These claims were given credence by the
circular holes in the river bottom from which prints had been taken--in some
cases with prints of approximately human appearance still leading into and away
from the holes.
In an attempt to verify these claims and to find fresh
evidence, the Taylor team excavated back into the riverbank in several areas.
New human-like trails, as well as fresh prints in existing trails, were found,
where there was no possibility of carving. Taylor never found perfect human
footprints, but the prints found did have significant indications of a human
foot and possessed no features incompatible with a human foot, so far as could
be seen. No other animal was known which could have made these markings. It was
concluded, therefore, that the weight of the evidence justified the
interpretation that the tracks were most probably human, given the backdrop of
"old timer" testimony.
Over the years, however, further erosion has dramatically
changed the appearance of the prints. Creationist investigators have frequently
clamed that only the freshly exposed evidence need be defended--not the eroded
remnants of tracks. The controversy seemed forever deadlocked, since the
original nature of the prints was available for study only in photos, movies,
and casts. The only way creationist claims could be invalidated was for (1)
features of the prints not visible beforehand to be exposed by erosion and (2)
for the testimonies of the "old timers" to be discredited. As unlikely
as this may seem, just such a scenario may be taking place today.
Due to an unknown cause, certain of the prints once labeled
human are taking on a completely different character. The prints in the trail
which I have called the "Taylor Trail," consisting of
numerous readily visible elongated impressions in a left-right sequence, have
changed into what appear to be tridactyl (three-toed) prints, evidently of some
unidentified dinosaur. The changes in the impressions themselves are mostly
confined to lengthening in the downriver direction. The most significant
change, however, is that surrounding the toe area. In almost each of the prints
in the trail, three large "toes" have appeared, similar to nearby
dinosaur tracks. These toes, typically, are coloration phenomena only, with no
impressions, in most cases. Frequently the "mud push up" surrounding
the original elongated track is crossed by this red coloration. The shape of
the entire track, including both impression and coloration, is unlike any known
dinosaur print.
A local resident had, in 1968, shown Taylor where he had
removed a human track to sell during the 1930's. Three 9-1/2" long
man-like tracks were found leading up to the hole, two of which showed the
general outline of a human foot. Following this general direction, Taylor
removed overlying strata for 200 feet downriver, and found what was later
called the Taylor Trail. He made no claims that these prints contained
unquestionable toes or other diagnostic features, but the bipedal stride and
the general shape of the tracks were certainly compatible with what a human
would make while walking in mud. In fact, the prints did possess features,
which were problematic, prompting creationist Berney Neufeld later to label
them as shallow, eroded dinosaur tracks. The trail might not
have been called human if not for the hole from which a "perfect"
print had reportedly been taken some 50 feet away. (From a recent study of
Taylor's field notes, it is fairly certain that the prints near the hole were
not a part of the Taylor Trail, as previously thought.
In view of these developments, none of the four trails at
the Taylor site can today be regarded as unquestionably of human origin. The
Taylor Trail appears, obviously, dinosaurian, as do two prints thought to be in
the Turnage Trail. The Giant Trail has what appears to be dinosaur prints
leading toward it, and some of the Ryals tracks seem to be developing claw
features, also.
The remainder of the article can be read here.
I found another interesting website along with photographs. Please visit if you get a chance:
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