Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Human Footprint Found with Dinosaur's?

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Author's Note: You might be glad to know that this is the 100th article written for Smiley's News! Thanks to all of our dedicated readers!

Scientists who believe in the theory of evolution are constantly affirming that dinosaurs existed 65 million years before the first modern humans walked the earth (62 million years before proto-humans), and that's the supposedly latest existing dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous period. According to evolutionists, most dinosaurs lived and have been extinct for far longer than 65 million years. But how do they know this? Were they there?

Now, creationists, such as myself, weren't there either, but we do rely on the holy words of the Individual who was there: God! If we study the Bible carefully, we learn that the world is actually no older than 6,000 years and that dinosaurs did live with man. Why then haven't we found humans with dinosaur fossils? Well, a better question to ask is “Have we found humans with dinosaur fossils?”

At one of his summer dig sites, Animal Adventures Institute's head paleontologist, Dr. Samuel Adamson, his wife, Indiana and the rest of their dig team were at a fossil bed in Texas' Paluxy River and uncovered an amazing discovery: dinosaur footprints. My trusty, junior photographer, Daniel P. Smithwater and I flew down to check out his unusual find. Samuel was busy the moment we arrived, so I started my interview with Dr. Indiana, who told me about the area the footprints were found in. She is quoted for saying, “Dinosaur footprints in this area date around 4,350 years ago, about the time of the Flood. The rock layer these footprints are deposited in is called lower Cretaceous and is in the Glen Rose Formation; evolutionists normally date this rock layer to about 105-115 million years ago.” Indiana said that a long time ago, dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes would have lived here, from long-necked sauropods, to 40-foot carnosaurs, iguanodontds and raptors. “Although,” Indiana says, “footprints aren't really too rare around here and have been collected by scientists and amateurs for over half a century, the ones we've found are quite interesting.”

Then Samuel was finally available to show us the fossil footprints they'd found in the shallow river (actually, this part of the Paluxy River is more like a creek). The fossil footprint is of a large, three-toed carnosaur dinosaur and a what looks like a human footprint where the middle toe of the theropod is. Daniel was glad to start taking pictures. Then Samuel started to tell me more about the amazing find. “A couple of my team members and I were following a dinosaur trackway in the creek,” he says, “and we stumbled upon this find, a dinosaur and what appears to be a human footprint in the same slab of rock, overlapping. It wasn't actually attached to the rock we were surveying, but rather lying on top of it. What's interesting is that the “human” footprint had to have been laid down first, because the dinosaur's middle toe claw goes over the alleged human footprint! So if this is legitimate, this would be terrific evidence that man lived with dinosaurs!”

Samuel says that the carnosaur footprint seems to belong to a large carcharodontosaurid called Acrocanthosaurus, the largest carnivorous dinosaur in the area. “It was a large and ferocious beast with a ridge – either a sail or fatty hump – along the top of its neck, back and a little bit of the tail, nasty jaws full of knife-like teeth and sharp claws on its hands that were like meat-hooks to its prey.” Acrocanthosaurus grew about 40 feet in length.

The recent find has gotten many geologists and paleontologists very intrigued. One of the most notable is Dr. Richard Taylor, a paleontologist at the Creation Museum of Texas History in Glen Rose, Texas. He says, “This is undeniable proof that mankind lived with dinosaurs! I don't know why evolutionists won't just admit that. Not only is the dinosaur footprints in the same slab of rock as the human footprint, but it's overlapping! That alone should make every evolutionist wonder if their belief is wrong. This is just one of the many evidences that dinosaurs lived with humans. My dig team...[and] I have made numerous discoveries in the Paluxy River over the past ten years that disprove the earth being millions of years old. Many human footprints have been discovered in rocks evolutionists believe were laid down during the Cretaceous period. We've also found what we believe to be a cat pawprint and a petrified human finger.”

As amazing as Dr. Taylor's claims are, Dr. Adamson is a bit more cautious about these finds. He is quoted for saying, “I'm sure Dr. Taylor is a well-meaning scientist. But I and many other creationists believe he's making claims are not well supported by the evidence.” Some creation paleontologists I've talked to agree with Samuel. In fact, there's even evidence to suggest that many of Dr. Taylor's claims are hoaxes; now that isn't to say that they were perpetrated by Dr. Taylor himself of course. “In fact,” Samuel continues, “it's interesting to note that the dinosaur-human footprint we found wasn't connected to the riverbed, it was lying on top of it. Now way back when, especially in the 1930's, many people out here in Glen Rose, Texas used to carve human footprints into the same rocks as dinosaur footprints and sell them as if they were legitimate. The dino-human footprint we found might have been accidentally left behind from those days. I'm also rather suspicious about the toes of the human in our specimen: the big toe looks like it made a bigger imprint in the then-mud then is to be expected from a human big toe.”

However, this isn't to say there isn't any evidence that dinosaurs lived with mankind sometime in the past, as Dr. Samuel explains: “There's lots of incredible evidence that man lived with dinosaurs. Petroglyphs and other types of rock carvings have been found all over the world of things that greatly resemble dinosaurs. It also seems extremely unlikely that dragon legends from all over the world could have all been just stories made up to entertain people. No, I think many of them were inspired by real accounts that, over the years, have been made more fanciful.”

And I'll close out today's story with a quote from Dr. Samuel: “When one looks at all the evidence that mankind lived with dinosaurs, you'll see that there's really no need for people to come up with fakes.”

Written by: Mr. Smiley
Photographer: Daniel P. Smithwater
Edited by: Christian Ryan

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