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Misplaced Fossils

Misplaced Fossils

For example, there is the case of the human footprints that have frequently, been found in supposedly very ancient strata.  Man. of course. is supposed to have evolved only in the late Tertiary, at the earliest. and therefore to be only about one million Years old.  But what appear to be human footprints have been found in rocks from as early as the Carboniferous Period, supposedly some 250,000,000 years old. Says Ingralls:

On site reaching from Virginia and Pennsylvania, through Kentucky.  Illinois, Missouri and westward toward the Rocky Mountains. prints similar to those shown above [referring to several accompanying pictures], and from 5 to 10 inches long, have been found on the surface of exposed rocks. and more and more keep turning up as the years go by.'

These prints give every evidence of having been made by human feet, at a time when the rocks were soft mud. As indicated in the quotation, this sort of thine is not a rare occurrence but is found rather frequently,.  However, geologists refuse to accept the evidence at face value, because it would mean either that modern man lived in the earliest Years of the postulated evolutionary, history or that this history must be condensed to a duration measured by the history of man.  Neither alternative is acceptable.  Ingalls says:

If man, or even his ape ancestor. or even that ape ancestor's early mammalian ancestor. existed as far back as in the Carboniferous Period in any shape, then the whole science of geology is so completely wrong that all the geologists will resign their jobs         and take up truck driving. Hence for the present at least. science rejects the attractive explanation that man made these mysterious prints in the mud of the Carboniferous Period with his feet."

Ingalls and others have tried to explain the prints as modern Indian carvings or as prints made of some as Yet undiscovered Carboniferous amphibian.  Such explanations illustrate the methods by which the uniformitarians can negate even the most plain and powerful evidence in opposition to their philosophy.  Nevertheless. it is obvious that it is only the Philosophy. and not the objective scientific evidence. that would prevent one from accepting these prints as of true human origin.

In Figures 10 and 11 are shown some remarkable footprints found in a Cretaceous limestone formation near Glen Rose. Texas photographed by Mr. Clifford L. Burdick. a practicing mining geologist.  Roland T. Bird. a paleontologist from the American Museum- of -Natural History, carefully examined the rocks pictured in Figure 11 and reported as follows:

Yes, they apparently were real enough.  Real as rock could be ... the strangest things of their kind I had ever seen.  On the surface of each was the near-likeness of a human foot, perfect in every detail.  But each imprint was 15 inches long." Roland T. Bird, "Thunder In His Footsteps," Vatiiral History, May, 1939, P. 255' Bird personally investigated the river bed from which these footprints had reportedly been cut and was told by James Ryals, a property owner. that a whole trail of these man tracks" had been washed away recently.  My surprise was partly overcome by Ryals' casual reference to them as human footprints. 1 smiled.  N man had ever existed in the Ace of Reptiles (p. 217).  Ryals could only show him one such track, 15 inches long.  "but the track lacked definition on which to base conclusions." However. he insisted that dinosaur tracks could still be found in the river bed.  To his utter amazement.  Bird discovered not only the trails of large three-toed carnivorous dinosaurs. but also the footprints of a gigantic sauropod. 24 x 38 inches, twelve feet apart, and sunk very deeply in the mud! (See also, R. T. Bird.  "We Captured a 'Live' Brontosaur," National Geographic AIacaline, May. 1954, pp. 707-72').  In spite of all this. Bird dismissed the large human footprints as clever carvings.

Burdick has published some of the results of his investigations' in this region. and it certainly appears from his description of the evidence that dinosaurs and giant humans must have lived at the same time. Another amazing find was reported many years ago, that of a fossilised human skull in the coal measures.  The outstanding authority on coal geology, Otto Stutzer. says concerning this mysterious fossil:

1 C. L. Burdick, in Tite Naturalist, Vol. 16.  Spring 1957.  Also, in Signs of the Times, July 22, 1950.

In the coal collection in the Mining  Academy in Freiberg. [Stutzer was Professor of Geology, and Mineralogy in the School of Mines at Freiberg. in Saxony], there is a puzzling. human skull composed of brown coal and manganiferous and phosphatic limonite, but its source is not known.  This skull was described by Karsten and Dechen in 1842.

The coal was presumably Tertiary in age but at any rate is supposed to have far antedated the first appearance of man.  The evidence again seems mostly to have been ignored, although it has been suggested that someone must have carved the skull!