Very well said! I am a devout follower of jesus Christ and have always been convinced that God created evolution, so to speak.
Yesterday I was wearing my Dinosaur Valley State Park t-shirt and a friend asked me if I had seen any of the places where dinosaurs tracks and human foot prints in the rock appear side by side. I was a little stunned by her question and gave her that deer in the headlights look.
She went on to explain that not only were those places extremely rare but they had to be hidden because certain people would destroy the evidence of humans and dinosaurs living at the same time.
I gave her a big hummmmmmmm and changed the subject.
She went on to explain that not only were those places extremely rare but they had to be hidden because certain people would destroy the evidence of humans and dinosaurs living at the same time.
I gave her a big hummmmmmmm and changed the subject.
I'm not so dismissive of those claims, myself. The fossil record represents only a tiny fraction of what lived and died (and when) in the past ca. 2.5 billion years and we are a bit hubristic to think that we have anything more than a basic framework for determining these things. Personally, it wouldn't surprise me if fossils of dinosaurs surviving well past the the end of the Cretaceous were eventually discovered.
Here's a website that is probably the source of some of your friend's claims. The evidence here is far from conclusive, but I personally find it very interesting.
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks.htm