Tracks of Swimming Dinosaur Found in Wyoming

LiveScience.com on yahoo ^ | 10/17/05 | Robert Roy Britt

[Amish with an attitude]

"when a six-foot-tall, two-legged dinosaur waded into the inland sea..."

Is there a skeleton that supports this physical description? or is this a guess-construction based on toe prints alone?

[SunkenCiv]

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[Chewbacca]

It was probably trying to get away from the flood during Noah's time.

[TheCrusader]

"The age of the sedimentary rock would tell you they were laid down 165 million years ago.."

Like He!! it would. The Mount St Helens volcanic eruption in the USA in 1980 formed a 1/40th scale model of the Grand Canyon in just one day with stratified sedimentary layers that turned to solid rock within nine months, proving the innacuracy and presumptuiousness of this method.
There goes your 'sediment' aging theory right out the proverbial junk science window.

The size of footprints are not a conclusive way to determine the size of the animal either. For example, the Lynx has feet nearly as large as the Mountain Lion, but the Mountain Lion is six times larger.

Now, if the Snow Rabbit (which has enormous feet) went extinct 3,000 years ago and modern 'scientists' found its footprints encased in mud, I suppose they'd rave about finding a prehistoric, gargantuan rabbit that lived 90 billion light years ago.

As for the alleged 'talons' they found in the footprint, the Gentoo Penguin has wide, heavy feet with three very sharp, irretractable claws that are used for digging and climbing up rock; but never for killing. The Gentoo Penguin eats primarily crustaceans, and occassionally tiny fish.

But hey, who am I to get in the way of Darwinists yanking the public chain by broadcasting their little theory as though it's... well... real science?

[TheCrusader]

"Oh yeah, that proves it! Once they got through swimming the dinos went and made them misterious crop circles! Believe it!"

LOL. I wonder if it ever occurred to these Darwinists that perhaps their overstuffed Ostrich was running into the water for its life, to get away from a predator? Or perhaps the waterline was about 50 yards further out at the time of the footprints and the thing never even got his toes wet? Something tells me that if people gave it enough thought they'd come up with about 100 other valid possibilities as well.

[lsee]

"Dino logic? Went thataway..."

[JAWs]

Silliness aside, presumably the stride and shape of the footprints would resemble other carnosaurs. As for the age... that's determined by the rock layer.

[TheCrusader]

"As for the age... that's determined by the rock layer."

Rock layers aren't a safe way to date anything either. I just read an article by a highly regarded, prolifically published scientist who says you can never trust dating with rock layers. He went on to say that he found, (using modern, science methods), a layer of rock that was three billion years old. The problem though, was that using the same methods the rock layer on top if the three billion year old layer was ONE billion years old. So according to modern rock/layer dating methods a billion years of history was lost between the two layers.

I will find the name of this scientist if anyone wants it. Yes, he's a Creationist. He states that virtually every method of modern dating is based around certain assumptions. Assumptions such as that no cataclysmic natural disaster ever happened to the earth, (like the great Flood in the Bible, for example). He says he can use modern scientific dating methods to show the earth is only 6,000 years old when you DON'T use the assumption there were no cataclysmic natural disturbances on the earth, and you DO go by the assumption that a great flood occurred thousands of years ago.

So the lesson is that the dating methods themselves are ok, but they will always have great variences according to the ASSUMPTIONS the scientists assign to the earth before using any of these methods. In other words, the dating methods can fit whatever you want them to fit.

[TheCrusader]

""Dino logic? Went thataway..."

LOL; thanks for the penguin pic.

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