Human and Dinosaur Fossils

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In Glen Rose, Texas, human footprints have been found next to and on top of dinosaur footprints. The track trails sometimes overlap. One explanation offered is that they were carved. A portion of one trail of human footprints, known as the Taylor Trail, had already been revealed at the time the carved explanation was made. After the carved explanation was made, they uncovered the rest of the trail under about six feet of clay and limestone and found seven more footprints. The process involved a bulldozer removing tons of limestone overburden, effectively eliminating the possibility that the tracks were carved. A total of fourteen tracks now make up the Taylor Trail. Here's a picture of the bulldozer removing the limestone: http://www.bible.ca/tracks/taylor-stan-bulldozer.jpg Here's a picture of the complete Taylor Trail: http://www.bible.ca/tracks/taylor-all-14.jpg Another problem for the carving explanation is the 'Burdick Track'. Joe Taylor is the curator and director of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum in Texas and is constantly digging up fossils. Concerning the 'Burdick Track', he wrote: "This well-known and controversial track came to light in the 1930s. Professor Bird studied it and Dr. Burdick as well. It is known as the Bird or 'Burdick Track,' from a Paluxy River, Glen Rose, Texas limestone formation (Figure 251b). Originally there were two tracks; in fact there was said to be a whole trail of them at one time. It is unquestionably human in shape, but early on, it was declared a carving because evolutionists insisted that men and dinosaurs could not have lived at the same time." - Joe Taylor, Fossil Facts & Fantasies (2001), p. 72. Carving would randomly cut across the internal rock structures. If the footprints were genuine, those internal rock structures would follow the contours of the footprint and show that pressure had been placed on the ground by someone walking or running when the track was made. Joe Taylor continues: "A few years ago Dr. Baugh acquired the track for his Creation Evidence Museum and had it sectioned to see if the depressions follow the impressions.... They do. In 1992, he asked me to put the Burdick track back together and mold it. While at the museum, I studied each section of the track under black light, which clarifies the laminations. At the time, I was convinced that I was looking at a genuine track, not a carving." - Joe Taylor, Fossil Facts & Fantasies (2001), p. 72. Here's a picture of the 'Burdick Track': http://www.bible.ca/tracks/burdick-track.jpg Here's a picture of the 'Burdick Track' being sectioned by a large diamond saw: http://www.bible.ca/tracks/burdick-track-being-sectioned-saw.jpg Here's a picture of the cross-section of the heel of the 'Burdick Track': http://www.bible.ca/tracks/burdick-cross-section-heel.jpg Here's a picture of the cross-section of the big toe of the 'Burdick Track': http://www.bible.ca/tracks/burdick-cross-section-great-toe.jpg For more information on the Paluxy footprints, check out this documentary on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSLfBo_TTU In 1990, near La Sal, Utah, eight human fossils were found buried about 50 feet down in a layer of rock that also contains dinosaur fossils. They contain no collagen, which typically takes about 1000 years to dissipate. One explanation offered is that these people were mining and the mine collapsed and buried them, but no obvious tools or artifacts were found associated with the fossils. Additionally, there are no crushed bones which would be expected if the mine caved in. Another explanation offered is that they were buried in a grave, but if this were true, the living would have had to dig a grave through extremely hard sandstone layers. The mining operation was halted in the 1930's because the rock was so hard it was destroying the bulldozers. For more information, contact geologist Don R. Patton, who attended some excavations at the site; dpatton693@aol.com People have found footprint fossils in Carboniferous rocks as well: In a 1940 Scientific American article written by Albert Ingalls, he discussed fossil human footprints found in Carboniferous rocks. The footprints were found in Berea, Kentucky. W. G. Burroughs was the man who originally studied the tracks. He began his study of the tracks in 1930. He was a geologist who founded the geology department and taught at Berea college. There is now a small museum named after him in the college. You can read more about this particular case here: - Ian Juby, "Special report #1: The strange fossil footprints of Berea, Kentucky," Ian's Creation Blog & Newsletters, (Feb. 18, 2012); http://ianjuby.org/newsletter/?p=525