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In Reply to: Well it was fun for a while.... posted by rditmars on October 13, 2003 at 18:20:29:
The Palauxy River bed tracks are not without controversy of course. Some creationists have distanced themselves from this find as a result (Morris and Gish most famously). But bear in mind that the Taylor trail showed 14 human-like tracks alternating right and left with a length variance from median (11.5") of no more than 5%. Individual toes (3 or more) can be discerned on 7 of the 14 tracks. Contrast this with one visible toe along with a variance in length of 35% in all of the Laetoli prints, an accepted fossilized early human trail.What can we say then? That humans walked with dinosaurs? That these prints are erroded impressions of other animals that now resemble human prints? We of course can say nothing conclusively becasue we were not present when the tracks were made.
What conclusion we come to is dependent entierly on our own apriori assumptions. If we accept a modern evolutionary explanation of the history of life, then the tracks must be erroded remains of some other animals (pteradq is the most often suggested one) because dinosaurs predate man by about sixty million years. If we are creationist in our outlook, then we are very inclined to view the tracks as human, as both pre and early ante-deluvian man was contemporary with dinosaurs.
That is the reality of the situation. Both creation and evolution require some meausre of faith for intellectual asscent. We were not present when God created kinds and we were not present when dinosaurs became birds. We will never know these events as observationally verified fact. It is all just believing what is most comfortable.
Thanks,
Rob
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