Posted on 02/19/2015 7:06:20 AM PST by fishtank
Geology documents dinosaurs fleeing Noah’s Flood
by Tas Walker
Published: 19 February 2015 (GMT+10)
In February 2015, geologists Tracy Thomson and Mary Droser, in an article published online by the journal Geology, released graphic evidence for the reality of Noah’s Flood.1
Swimming animals left tracks underwater
Thomson and Droser
Lark-Quarry-trackmaker
Figure 1. Swim trackway from Capitol Reef National Park, USA.
The Geological Society of America press release shows a sandstone block sitting vertically in the field with tracks running for a few metres across its surface (figure 1). These are interpreted as swimming tracks because the imprints represent only a part of the foot. Consequently it is assumed that the animal was being supported by water. Thomson and Droser explain:
Swim tracks are a unique type of vertebrate track because they are produced underwater by buoyant trackmakers, and specific factors are required for their production and subsequent preservation. Swim tracks are found all over the world, including dinosaur tracks in northern Spain, which consist of claw marks made on the sand surface as the animal was on tip-toes trying to move through deep flowing water.
Figure 2. Hypothesized reconstruction of the small Lark Quarry trackmaker.
CMI article images and captions.
Quoted by the article:"… there was something unusual about this period of earth history because of the number of tracks made by animals swimming in shallow water "
These people are ignorant.
I’ve left similar tracks across countless water bodies but not once was I fleeing a flood.
One common thing I always say when people talk about “millions of years” is
“yeah, what was it like back then?”.
They usually don’t get it. No one currently claiming millions of years was there and is depending on present day processes to conjecture not only the timeframe, but what happened.
There have been many floods and many dinosaurs in Earth’s past. That is all I can say for sure.
Of course! Because everyone knows the Earth is undeniably only 6,000 years old.....
Boy, it sure didn’t take long for the hostile truth hate to rear it’s ugly head in here.
St. Augustine (b. 354 AD) took the view that the Biblical text should be interpreted metaphorically, if a literal interpretation contradicts science and our God-given reason. While each passage of Scripture has a literal sense, this “literal sense” does not always mean that the Scriptures are mere history; at times they are rather an extended metaphor.
Augustine recognized that the interpretation of the creation story is difficult, and remarked that we should be willing to change our mind about it as new information comes up.
Wouldn't water flowing over a sand surface have scrubbed the tracks from the surface of the sand before it had a chance to solidify to sandstone?
Quoted by the article:”… there was something unusual about this period of earth history because of the number of tracks made by animals swimming in shallow water “
No, there is nothing unusual about the fauna producing such tracks and certainly has nothing to do with a flood, Noah or otherwise.
It so happens the configuration of the continents created a shallow sea which created extensive lengths of drowned coastlines and swamps for long periods of time in continental areas which subsequently escaped destruction by plate tectonics as the continental crust dived into oceanic trenches. It is to be expected that a large number of such fossils are to be seen in the sandstones of these regions.
Astoundingly ignorant,,,
Telescopes measure directly, through the standard surveying technique of triangulation, the distance to stars. Within a decade, we will have direct measurements to the center of our galaxy, 30,000 light years away. What do the young Earth proponents have to say about an age of the Universe greater than 6,000 years, based on direct measurements? How does that affect the young Earth hypothesis?
These people are ignorant.
Based on what?
This is very helpful in explaining why I’ve never seen a dinosaur drink a glass of water.
After being nearly exterminated by water during the Great Flood, they are now hydrophobic. And extremely shy, like the Yeti, Bigfoot, the Abdominal Snowman (whom no one can stomach) and the Loch Ness ‘monster’.
Thank you General Fishtank for another valuable science lesson backed by evidence and geometric logic.
Mandrake
Increased popularity of hydrotherapy/aquapilates.
Such measurements also have produced distances greater than the age of the supposed big bang.
How “old” was Adam when he first met Eve?
I understand your point, but none of us were there.
One thing I find fascinating about all this is that the dinosouars could not have lived for more than a few days in our current world. Their bone and muscle structure could not have supported their weight unless they were all neck deep in water and the flying creatures could not have flown, other than maybe some crude gliding. They were too heavy.
So we don’t know yet what was going on. We can only speculate.
Their "explanation" is that light has not/must not have traveled at a constant speed throughout history. So, determining dates of celestial bodies via the length of time it takes light to reach Earth is unreliable.
Plus, it contradicts the Bible. Which, of course, it does not.
Yes, and because of that fact, your tracks were not preserved as fossils, but were washed away.
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