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- A review of claims that pterodactyls or other pterosaurs survived into modern times.

Scientificevidence against "Flood Geology" is extensive and multifacited; however, three especially strong and readily understood arguments are presented below. (For Biblical arguments that the Genesis Flood was regional, not global, in addition to more scientific evidence, seeGlenn Morton's website).

Selected origins-related websites by others

(The first several sites below have Christian orientations and generally old-earth viewpoints; the last several are from largely secular, mainstream scientific sources)

Organization of scientists who are also Christians interested in exploring issues of science and faith. The "Topic Collections" links on their home page provide a wealth of information on the origins debate.

Richard Deem's God and Science web site showing that young-earth creationism is Biblically and scientifically unsound.

Institute for Biblical and Scientific Studies by Stephen C. Meyers Features many articles on various aspects of creationism and Biblical archaeology

Morton is a Christian petroleum geologist and former strict creationist whose writings contain a wealth of information on many aspects of the creation/evolution controversy. especially insightful.

Glenn relates an affliction he once shared with many young-earth creationists

Wonderly's book presents many lines of robust evidence demonstrating that the earth has had a long and complex history. A must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the Creation-evolution controversy.

Includes a number of testimonies by former young earth creationists.

Talk.Origins archive. The largest collection of origins-related articles on the web. Includes secular and theistic authors, mostly from mainstream scientific perspectives.

- A review of claims that a dinosaur is depicted on the Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia

Dinosaur and human tracks have been discovered together in the same river bedrock of the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas! This strikes a great blow to the theory of evolution which claims that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago . . . millions of years before man supposedly evolved.

When evolutionary philosophers criticized this historic discovery and claimed that someone must have made the human tracks with a hammer and chisel, a bull-dozer was brought to the site to uncover more of the bed-rock.

The heavy equipment carefully uncovered more of the Cretaceous bedrock and even more human tracks were discovered with dinosaur tracks! Humans and dinosaurs apparently roamed the earth together!

Nearby is the exciting Dinosaur Valley State Park where hundreds of dinosaur prints have been discovered.The park is a fun place to visit and it is just a short distance from where all of the human and dinosaur tracks have been found together. There are many dinosaur tracks found all over the area near Glen Rose, Texas. The the Puluxy River Valley is a literal treasure chest filled with them.

The tracks were made when the dinosaurs walked through mud. Later the mud hardened and after being filled with sand and other materials from a large flood, the tracks turned into rock. This is a lasting record of what was here when the mud was soft.

Some of the tracks reveal human footprints right inside the dinosaur footprints!

The human footprints are very large and are thought to be made from persons that were eight feet tall. Other “giant” artifacts and footprints have been found in different places all over the world!

Every kid and even the cartoon figure Grimm can tell you that you have to make marks in concrete while it is still wet. The same is true of the human and dinosaur prints found in the bedrock of the Paluxy River . . . both man and dinosaurs must have been there at approximately the same time before the mud dried and eventually turned to rock!

Other interesting human artifacts have been found in the same rock strata as dinosaur tracks and fossils.

This hammer was found in the center of Cretaceous rocks which is supposedly 65 million years old. Is it possible that dinosaurs lived on earth thousands of years ago instead of millions of years ago as we have been taught?

This is just a cartoon, but it tells an interesting story: Dinosaur tracks and human tracks found together prove that dinosaurs and humans walked on planet earth at the same time . . . just thousands of years ago instead of millions of years ago!

Human and dinosaur fossil footprints in the Upper Cretaceous of North America?

The Upper Cretaceous Dunvegan Formation of British Columbia has yielded some of the best dinosaur footprints in Canada. The area near Tumbler Ridge is one of the few locations in the world with dinosaur footprints and dinosaur bones on the same bedding plane. Human-like footprints were recently discovered in the area, too, but on closer examination they seem to be metatarsal dinosaur footprints. The discoverers of these ichnofossils also found some of the best dinosaur trackways in Canada, described for the first time in this paper.

such sequences bear little resemblance to the complex and irregular geological profile of modern-day river deltas.

The Dunvegan Formation (DF) is interpreted as a deltaic complex of Cenomanian age, advancing into the sea about 400 km from NW to SE (from British Columbia to Alberta), over about 2 million years.^8 The formation is described as prograde, based on a coarsening-upwards grading from clays to sands to gravels, interpreted as the result of the changing relative deposition location from off-shore to near-shore. According to some authors, the DF covers a much larger area (about 300,000 km^2), extending as far as the Northwest Territories.^9 Lithologically, it consists of interbedded mudstone, sandstone and conglomerate. Coal, either as lenses or irregular bodies, is frequent, but in amounts significantly smaller than the Lower Cretaceous coal deposits which are mined in the area.

A creationist interpretation of this formation would be a primarily depositional environment under fluctuating water levels during the Flood, as discussed later.

cleared a rock face, two local boys discovered dinosaur footprints, which were later assigned to ankylosaurs (ichnotaxa Tetrapodosaurus borealis), the first ever found. The footprints are grouped in a trackway, which is the first in situ trackway found in B.C., as all previous ichnites have been found in blocks of rock dislocated from their original position. In addition, the Flatbed Creek site yielded a few dinosaur bones (attributed to ankylosaurs, but there was insufficient data for a solid identification).

Subsequently, footprints were found in the left bank of the nearby Wolverine Creek, this time belonging to ornithopods. Figure 1 shows the ichnofossil sites in the Tumbler Ridge area.

Recently, creationists Fred and Ruth Walkley, and Bruce and Joan Zimmerman from Tumbler Ridge discovered two new track sites in this area. They noticed a strong resemblance of some of the ichnites to human footprints. To their credit, they decided not to reveal the site until a professional geologist with a Christian worldview could see it first. Following their invitation, I visited the site in early October 2003. Table 1 Table 1. Anatomical dimensions of humanlike fossil footprints

The presumed human prints were located in the left bank of the Wolverine Creek, about a mile upstream from the Wolverine Bridge (figure 2). The site was exposed after a flood in the spring of 2001 washed away overlying material. It has a triangular shape (figure 3), bordered by the river to the S–SW, a vertical outcrop to the N–NE and a rubble heap to the E–SE. The outcrop reveals interbedded mudstones, sandstones, marls and shales (figure 2). The shales in the upper part are black and contain frequent ferruginous nodules. Also a white film (possibly montmorillonite) covers the outcrop in a few locations after seeping out of the strata.Figure 3 Figure 3. Plan of the Wolverine Creek site with the location of ichnofossils (click for larger image)

The secular paleontologists working in the area had visited the site before us and concluded there were no ichnites there. I disagree with their conclusion and believe they simply overlooked them because they were expecting to see footprints complete with toe marks (digitigrade ichnites—like prints made by cats and dogs).

The ichnites appear on a highly irregular bedding plane of a dark grey mudstone (figure 4). I investigated seven features (labelled WOC 01 to 07) of which five have strong resemblances to human footprints, but are much larger. No trackway was found, not even two consecutive steps that could allow any estimation of pace, stride, gait, etc.

The general outline of WOC 02 (figure 5) is similar to a human right footprint. Though not evident, an arch can be inferred, which is the only reason to consider it a ‘right footprint’. There is a clear secondary, wider contour of the frontal and upper right side of the print which suggests originally soft, wet sediment. No toeprints are present. The maximum depth of the print is 30 mm towards the upper right side, gradually decreasing to close to 0 mm at the heel. This suggests the walking manner was on the whole sole of the foot, like bears or people (plantigrade or quasi-plantigrade walking manner) rather than walking on the toes (digitigrade walking manner). Most ichnites found in the area have been digitigrade with 3 or 4 toe prints, tri- or tetradactile.

Kuban has pointed out that bipedal dinosaurs, which normally walk digitigrade, may have occasionally walked in a plantigrade manner, especially when on soft, fairly deep sediments.^11 The detailed bedding plane morphology of the ichnite-bearing layer (especially its ruggedness) suggests the sediment was soft and prone to slumping. Footprints would have been very poorly preserved. I suspect some postdepositional process, such as loadcasting (where sandy material protrudes into underlying finer material), further distorted the original prints.Figure 5 Figure 5. WOC 02 and basic biometric measurements (click for larger image)

The bottom plane of this print is parallel to the bedding, and its size well exceeds any normal human footprint. The bearing of the print is due west (270°).

There are marked differences between R1 and R2 for WOC 02 and 06. And given the different bearing and general morphology, the data indicates different authors. I have introduced comparative data from the Paluxy River ichnites, which shows similar morphology and is the only dataset providing acceptable morphometric information. However, from what I could find in the literature, the Paluxy River ichnites are probably not human, but dinosaurian. Consequently, the differences are rather irrelevant for the above comparison.

shallower, elongated impressions with no toe marks, within the same trail and at distances perfectly matching the pace. (click for larger image)

Most problematic of all, the pace is bigger than that of the largest modern humans—over 1 m.^13 Running cannot be invoked because of the soft, muddy sediment in which the prints were produced. It is virtually impossible for a human to run with a pace of over one metre on such a substrate! Furthermore, the indistinct, elongated tracks are a minority compared with the clear tridactyl elongated tracks which represent most of the individual tracks, within any trackway (figure 7).

Personally, I lean towards interpreting WOC 02 and 06 as metatarsal dinosaurian footprints, too, although I would not completely rule out the possibility of them being human. However, without a sequence of at least three consecutive prints, I would not even consider trying to build such a case.

The ichnofossil discoveries in the Tumbler Ridge area have unfortunately attracted some individuals with a definitely different philosophy of track hunting, namely ‘take ’em with you’. Since my visit in the area, a theropod footprint at one of the sites has disappeared, having been pried out from the rock layer—one of the very few in situ dinosaur footprints in the whole of Canada! Because of this I have chosen not to reveal the location of Ruth Walkley’s discovery in figure 10. Unfortunately, this is not in situ either. This splendid trackway is located on a large slab of mudstone and composed of four clear footprints and two clear handprints. Adding to the value of this trackway is the fact that the entire slab surface is ripple marked; a very clear and rather precise paleoenvironmental marker which will be discussed later.Figure 8 Figure 8. Various metatarsal impressions as presented by Kuban^11 (click for larger image)

The general appearance of the footprints suggests a theropod, but the many-fingered handprints seem to rule out such a possibility. Theropods were mainly bipedal and their hands had a different morphology. There is another characteristic that raises doubts as to the theropod origin of this trackway: although the length of digit III is greater than that of digits II and IV, the difference in length is smaller (only 2 cm) than in usual theropods. The posterior end of the footprints is almost linear (figure 11) and not v-shaped as with most of the theropods (this is probably also due to the fact that the animal was walking on all fours, therefore relieving a part of the weight the feet normally supported).

This was a rather small animal (ornithopod?) with a pace of 60 cm and a stride of 105 cm. The four footprints are remarkably similar in length and width, with an average length of 24 cm and an average width of 22 cm (the differences being below 0.5 cm).

While in the field, I often recall these words of Sherlock Holmes: ‘Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.’ ‘Impossible’ here, however, should not be defined according to a bias (i.e. an evolutionist would claim that it’s impossible for a human footprint to be in the same layer with dinosaur footprints), but it should be the logical kind of ‘impossible’.

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Originally the Paluxy ichnofossils (or trace fossils) were considered by creationists to be powerful evidence that men and dinosaurs coexisted. In the 1980s John Morris wrote the popular book Tracking Those Incredible Dinosaurs (and the People Who Knew Them) and the film “Footprints in Stone” was produced by Stan Taylor. Over time, the exposed prints became quite eroded and evolutionists argued that they were merely elongated dinosaur footprints that had experienced infilling. Some creationists are now inclined to agree that the famous Taylor Trail was made by a dinosaur, though some point to the mixture of human and dinosaur characteristics as evidence that the tracks are a composite, the human track superimposed upon the existing dinosaur footprints. (See Robert Helfinstine and Jerry Roth’s 1994 book Texas Tracks and Artifacts.)

To the left is the “Meister Print,” found in Utah within a block of shale. It was first publicized in the CRS Quarterly as the footprint containing a trilobite fossil. Bottom left is a fossilized shoe sole found petrified in Triassic rock. This print specimen is so clear that the threads are visible to the naked eye! Also published in this journal is the 1995 study of quasihuman ichnofossils (supposed human tracks) found with tracks of dinosaurs in strata near Tuba City, Arizona. Photomicrographic analysis indicates that the human-like impressions were created by pressure which created relatively smooth surfaces, unlike the rougher surfaces of impressions formed inside concretions and unlike surrounding surfaces. Comparison of the quasihuman ichnofossils with modern tracks in wet mud shows them to be closely comparable, supporting their theory that the fossil imprints were made by human feet. (Auldaney, Rosnau, Back, and Davis, CRS Quarterly, vol. 34, pp. 133-146.)

Human footprints lie alongside thousands of dinosaur prints on a Turkmenian plateau, a Russian newspaper has reported.

Journalist Alexander Bushev reported in the 31 January 1995 edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda (one of the most popular newspapers of the former USSR) that he had journeyed to the plateau near the village of Khodga-Pil in Turkmenistan, and had seen the fossilized prints of dinosaurs and humans together.

According to evolutionary theory, dinosaurs had become extinct long before humans first appeared on earth.

Bushev said that every metre of the half-kilometre-wide rock surface is covered by three-toed footprints ‘made by giant dinosaurs making their morning or evening promenade along the ancient sea-shore’. The Turkmenian plateau contains more than 3,000 footprints.

Bushev said that Turkmenian scientist Kurban Amanniyazov considers this Jurassic plateau to be at least 200 million years old.

This report about dinosaur and human footprints on Kughitang-Tau Plateau is not the first. The news was reported to readers of the English version of Moscow News in 1983 (No. 24, p. 10). This was during a period when communists strictly controlled the ideological aspect of all publications, so an article of that kind could be published only with official commentary from a representative of official State science.

‘Who knows, but maybe our very far removed ancestors did mingle with dinosaurs?

‘“Science might possibly answer that in the affirmative some time in the future”, said Professor Kurban Amanniyazov, head of the expedition. “However, at present we don’t have enough grounds to say this. We’ve imprints resembling human footprints, but to date have failed to determine, with any scientific veracity, whom they belong to, after all.

Note: This article is a factual account of a genuine, sober report in the Russian newspaper. However, one needs to be cautious about accepting the prints described on the basis of just this report. None of our sources has been able to obtain any further information on the prints, nor any photograph to this date. It is presented for the information of readers, and to show how these particular evolutionists interpreted evidence which seemed to contradict the whole concept.

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According to evolutionary theory, dinosaurs had become extinct long before humans first appeared on earth.

Creationism and Human and Dinosaur Footprints

Both creationists and evolutionists often search for evidence to support their respective beliefs. Although most creationists derive their beliefs from the Bible, many still do look for evidence in the physical world to support the Bible's teachings. One fairly recent piece of evidence proposed by some creationists can be found near the Paluxy River in Texas. Certain individuals believe they have found human footprints mixed in or overlapping dinosaur footprints, among other evidence of human existence at the same time as dinosaurs. This evidence differs from a natural clock in that it does not attempt to create its own date for the dawn of man, but rather it is used to discredit the accepted geologic history in which man and dinosaur are not even close to cohabitating.

According to modern paleoanthropologists, the hominid lineage split away from other ape lineages about six million years ago in Africa. Before the appearance of Homo Sapiens there were various other hominid species which gradually evolved and spread from Africa into Asia. Several species were extant at the same time, which suggests that they competed with each other for food and other resources. In fact, some species probably competed with others to the point that they were driven to extinction. Despite the common belief that Homo neanderthalenis was the early version of present day humans, Neanderthals are actually considered a different species that shared a common direct ancestor with Homo ergaster, which shares a common ancestor with Homo erectus. Homo sapiens replaced Homo erectus about 200,000 years ago according to Purves et al.

Over the years, creationists have reported various pieces of evidence in the Earth that contradict the fossil record. Seemingly manmade objects have been reported in rocks which, according to geologists, would not have been available to man. To some people, this evidence debunks the entire accepted scientific dating system. The most famous piece of such evidence is the supposed human tracks in the limestone bed of the Paluxy River in Texas. The Paluxy River is known for its large number of dinosaur footprints, but some people believe that tracks from human beings are intermingled with the dinosaur footprints, which would mean that humans and dinosaurs were on the planet at the same time. Creationists have also proposed that human tracks can be found inside some of the dinosaur footprints. The below picture of a supposed human footprint discovered near the Paluxy River is taken from Texas Tracks and Artifacts by Robert F. Helfinstine and Jerry D. Roth, page 35.

John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris write of the tracks in their book The Genesis Flood. They use the tracks as evidence that man and dinosaurs coexisted. In a caption under a photograph of a dinosaur footprint next to what they contend to be a human footprint they state, "Geologists have rejected this evidence preferring to believe that the human footprints were carved by some modern artist, while at the same time accepting the dinosaur prints as genuine. If anything, the dinosaur prints look more 'artificial' than the human, but the genuineness of neither would be questioned at all were it not for the geologically sacrosanct evolutionary time-scale" (Morris and Whitcomb 1960: 174).

In the same area as the supposed tracks, what appeared to be a human tooth was found in 1987. The object was identified by a dentist as a child's right central incisor. Although it was slightly larger than most human teeth, it was within the expected size range of a typical modern day human tooth. Two separate dentists later agreed with the identification of the object as a human tooth by looking at photographs of it. Two other supposed human teeth were found downstream from the first tooth. These teeth also lay within the normal size range of human teeth (Helfinstine and Roth 1994: 27).

What is reported to be a fossilized finger has also been found near the Paluxy River. Photographs of the object (below) reveal that it does indeed have the same shape and size of a human index finger (Helfinstine and Roth 1994: 30).

Although the evidence found by creationists may seem groundbreaking at first glance, it has not stood up to scientific scrutiny. Scientists have discovered that many of the supposed human tracks are in fact "natural irregularities and erosional features of the substrate elongate, metatarsal dinosaur tracks...made by dinosaurs that, at least at times, impressed their soles and heels as they walked" (Kuban 1992). Often the toe marks of the dinosaur tracks are somewhat filled in, causing them to resemble very large human footprints. When the filling sediment is removed the tracks are clearly made by a three-toed dinosaur. Kuban goes on to write that "Recent claims that some of these tracks have human prints within them have been shown to be as baseless as the original claims" (Kuban 1992).

The color of the elongate dinosaur tracks often differs from that of the surrounding limestone. This color spreads out not only where the imprints can be clearly seen but also out into the less visible digit marks. According to Kuban, this shows that the tracks appear to be of human origin because of secondary sediment that has filled in the tracks. Now that the color of the new material is beginning to change, the original shape of the tracks is becoming more obvious. This, combined with features in the tracks that do not agree with human footprints, such as anterior splaying visible even when the tracks were first discovered, proves that the tracks in the Paluxy River are completely of dinosaurian origin (Kuban 1992).