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Did Man
Walk With Dinosaurs?
Around the same time that
the London Hammer was discovered, an
equally startling discovery was made in
what is now known as Dinosaur Park in
Texas. The region is famous for its many
trails of fossilized dinosaur
footprints, made when the earth was wet
and soft, and preserved forever when
the
soil hardened. What was found was a
part of what is now known as the Taylor
Man Trail. Mixed with and sometimes
crossing the dinosaur paths, were the
footprints of a human being. The
controversy surrounding the footprints
was immediate, for obvious reasons.
Evolution teaches us that dinosaurs
became extinct about 65 million years
ago, at the end of the Cretaceous
period, and that humans appeared a long
tie afterward. But these prints were
obviously made at the same time, which
is a big contradiction of standard
accepted models of the Earths history of
life.
As I said the controversy
was immediate. Right after a "human"
footprint had been excavated and shown
at an archaeological meeting, several
"evolutionists" (So called proponents of
the standard model) were reported by
witnesses as being seen at the site of
the trail, destroying the man tracks
with crow bars. Initially, the claims of
humans and dinosaurs walking together
were dismissed as hoaxes or
misinterpreted data. But in the 1970's a
drought dried up the Paluxy river, where
the tracks were found, and the trail was
discovered to extend even further, thus
ruling out that the tracks were a hoax.
This, Creationists claim,
is further proof that the bible can be
taken literally, that the Earth is about
6,000 years old and that geological
processes are poorly understood. The
tracks do indeed look to be made by a
human, however the controversy thickens.
Many of the tracks are beginning to
erode, as parts of the Paluxy have been
dammed off to study them, and the tracks
have been excavated. The erosion is
making claims that they are human tracks
even harder to support. Plus a number of
tracks have been stolen, including the
one shown at that meeting in the 1930's.
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